Re: Would it be possible that gtk implementation in C++

Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:10:00 +0200



    Hi,

    
    Someone asked this question on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9747468/why-was-the-gobject-system-created

    I think they answer it pretty well. Also, C is much closer to the
    hardware and GCC's error messages for C++ are not that great.

    
    On 08/07/2014 10:49 PM, Dub wrote:

    
      tbh, the only reason I use GTK is because it is C.
        

        While C++ is probably a better choice. C allows you to
          easier integrate it with pretty much any language of your
          choosing easily (Vala, Ruby, PHP (lol), Python, Rust, Go,
          Perl, Lua, _javascript_, etc) that in itself is a really good
          reason.
      
      
        On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:22 PM, 黄羽众 <ihyzi@xxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          
              For the past few time, I am using gtkmm to
                development GUI application, and I am really enjoy it.
              

              I know that choose C as its implementation language
                makes gtk gain a wonderful performance,
              but recently GCC turn to C++.  https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html
              
              
              I think that as a complier which have to think a lot
                about performance, it turn to C++ for code elegance and
                development speed,
              a GUI application have no reason to continue using C
                stuff.
              

              Actually gtk implement
                  a object system as its essential part, that did
                prove that GUI application need a object-oriented
                design.
              And C++ could provide this as a language level
                feaure, needless to implement it in application code.
              

              So I suggest that it is possible to develop gtk in
                c++ as main-line support?
              

              Unlike gtkmm, which is just a wrapper from c++ to c,
                turn to c++ in main-line means a lot.
              

              GCC choose this and get good result, I think gtk
                could have a try.
            
            
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