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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: GUI for Ada (GPS with GtkAda or GtkGlade GUI Builder)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:50:12 +0200
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 05:09:36 -0700 (PDT), sjaniska@gmail.com wrote:

> On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 1:59:37 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> No. Because GUI code is usually bigger and messier than the application
>> code. It is more fragile and requires much more maintenance. 
> 
>> No. Maintenance costs are 10 times of developing costs. For GUI code it is
>> even more than that, because once deployed, the customer starts requiring
>> modifications. Whatever mythical productivity it does not matter in the end
>> anyway.
> 
> So, what is solution?
> 
> Writing everything in Python :-)

Writing nothing in Python!

> Isn't the problem that many type-safe languages at the end use e.g. GTK
> bindings for the library written in unsafe language like C?

It is one of [lack of] education that leads people to develop GTK or Qt in
the languages like C and C++. If you looked at GtkAda and compared it to
the native C API you would immediately see how much safer GtkAda is. E.g.
you could not connect to the "clicked" event of a tree store. That would be
a type error checked statically. [You still could work around that and
proudly get a run-time error from GTK]

> Or, do you suggest writing everything in e.g. C++?

I suggest writing everything in Ada.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de