Re: Ada-Python demo

[Gour <gour@atmarama.net>]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:

> It makes perfect sense, especially if you take into account that GUI
> in Ada is kind of shaky subject. 

Yeah, I'm aware of it...too bad there is no one *common* QtAda project.
:-/

> This might be a valid idea also for teams where some programmer(s)
> might be more Ada-oriented while other(s) might happen to be Python
> fans - problem solved, all programmers will be happy. :-)

Well, it sounds better than we tried to use only Haskell and few of
(potential) contributors just run away in fear. :-)

otoh, I'm a little concerned about what will happen with type-safety
when entering data into Python-powered GUI loop and rendering it back
after being processed by Ada part?

if the cost is too hight, then it's maybe better to wrestle with GUI in
Ada.

> On the other hand, in the context of writing GUI I would consider
> even more options. Extending Python interpreter with Ada modules
> means that there exists a single process that does everything. Why
> not divide the whole application into separate processes: one (or
> many) handling the business logic and another for the UI. 

That's one possibility.

> This can open some interesting options like having desktop GUI
> (Python? Java?  etc.) *and* web-based interface (AWS? Java? etc.)
> *and* perhaps even something else (mobile app?) for the same
> functionality. 

At the moment, I simply do not believe that web interface can replace
desktop GUI, at least, in our case.

Otoh, using Qt(5) seems to cover many/most of those interfaces by
staying within the realm of Qt only.

> No, I'm not trying to discourage you from the Ada-Python integration
> (what would be the point of creating the demo? :-) ), but keeping
> alternatives in the back of our minds is probably a good idea.

Certainly it is. However, at the moment I still believe that desktop is
the interface which would be most appropriate and/or mostly used.


Sincerely,
Gour

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