Re: native-code languages (slashdot) and Borland rant

Measured on apps of which size?

On apps of small size. Things like selecting some Oracle data and displaying
it in a grid, small data entry forms, configuration dialogs, networking
stuff, etc...

The guy who wrote this stuff threw those things together in a couple of
days, although he only used Python before and didn't know anything about Wx
when he started. Pretty impressive. And the users seem to like those
programs. They are responsive, they are cheap (in terms of development
time), they are crossplatform, and changes can be implemented rapidly.

I've also checked some bigger wx programs (DialogBlocks, HelpBlocks,
Audacity), and I love the UI responsiveness (those are written in C++, but
show the capability of Wx).

The thing is, Winforms even renders slowly when only one dialog is involved.
There are probably ways around this, but the point is you never had to worry
about things like UI-performance until now - at least if you didn't use
Swing :)



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