wxWindows vs. MFC

Posted by Cliff on Monday July 15, 2002 @09:20AM from the comparing-the-advantages-and-disadvantages dept.

EvanED queries: I'm going to devoloping a chess program, and was until a couple days ago planning to do it in MFC. But then I ran across wxWindows. I think it would be cool if it were able to run under Linux. (At the moment, I do not have Linux on any computer but will as soon as I get my own machine.) Do the benefits of supposed cross-platformness outweigh the drawbacks of having to learn a new system and not having all the (incredibly wonderful) automatic code generation features Visual C++ provides for MFC programs? Or would it perhaps be better to write it in MFC since I am reasonably familiar with it then port it to wxWindows?"

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Re:Absolutely, cross-platform is worth a lot. by ClosedSource · 2002-07-15 18:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Within two years, after governments evaluate the security risk of using U.S. software, they will pass laws that government workers must use Linux or BSD. That will cause the movement away from Windows to accelerate"

Given the government's history of making poor decisions about software (ADA and JTRS come to mind), this sounds almost plausible. But I think they realize that the average government worker is not ready for Linux or BSD in its present form.