Re: Ada-Python demo

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> Thank you. Read your article about calling Ada modules from within
> Python and wonder, if you explored that idea further, what do you think
> if it would be feasible to write the whole back-end/libraries of
> application using Ada and then glue everything together in GUI app
> written with PyQt?

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

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. 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.
In this case, instead of investing into inter-language integration at the level of Python interpreter (note that it basically binds you to a single scripting language) I would consider going full distributed.

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.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com