Sunday, September 16, 2007

Future of gnome

While there is a great amount of c programs for gnome destpo environment, there is also some another platforms and hi-level languages which are used to be future of gnome.
For instance, python is still one of them. With its interpreter and pygtk module or wx it can be used developing under gnome. Despite it is a powerful language, it can be hard for developing complex applications.
So there is two alteratives, too. One of them is the mono project. Mono project is a free .net environment for linux. It's been developing under the gpl licence. With mono you can use c#, java, ironpython, vbscript. You can start to program under mono with installing monodevelop, a free ide for mono.
The another one is a known friend, java. Java is now open, If you have troubles with java you can use jython. With jython, you can compile bytecode of your any python script, and run it on the JVM.

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