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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Brandybuck on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @11:27

I think there are two "hurts" for bindings. Depending on your perspective they could be major, minor or trivial hurts, but I have tripped and bashed my knee on them in the past. The first is that you limit your pool of maintainers and code contributors. I don't know Ruby, so I can't help with a project written in Ruby without first learning the language. The second is that you imposing additional software (vm's, interpreters, runtime libs, etc) on the user.

The last thing I want to do is to discourage anyone from coding in any non-C/C++ language. But these language do come at a price and we should be aware of them so that we can balance those costs with the costs of using C/C++.

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Re: What bindings in general need is:
by Boudewijn Rempt on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @12:08

The extra runtime requirements used to be a much bigger problem than it is nowadays. In the early days of PyQt you really couldn't ask ordinary users to try to install PyQt themselves. I was constantly helping prospective users of Kura, my language description software, to install Python, Qt, PyQt and everything in the right order. Nowadays, most distributions package a useful version of PyQt, and there are far fewer problems.

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