Re: [gnome-love] GNOME needs some good SDK

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Michele Alex D. De Pascalis
<glaedr il drago gmail com> wrote:
> Just look around: Apple and Microsofts have their own SDKs, APIs and IDEs perfectly working with them. 
> Compared to these, developing for GNOME is way too hard and complicated. Maybe we have the fastest 
> software, but we have to write with Gtk, which is just a toolkit, without anything else really integrating 
> it. And C is over, so autogenerating a wrapper isn't a good solution (talking about gtkmm). If a newbie 
> gets in touch with Cocoa and Xcode, he gets templates, he gets wide documentation, he connects events with 
> handlers by a drag'n'drop, cutting on the IDE's editor.
> But it's not just about the IDE itself, it's also about paradigms: Apple chose Model View Controller and 
> Delegation, and everything is written around these, and it takes seconds to add a View to your application.
> I'm saying this because I've been learning Cocoa for eight months, and I had learnt C++ before. Even now I 
> know C++ is better in many ways, but trying back Gtk made me understand it's not about the language, now. 
> Those who write iOS or Mac apps know what I mean with all this.

Completely agree. I think that a lot of other GNOME contributors would
agree also.

I really hope that we will have an SDK one day.

Allan
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