Coding The Future Linux Desktop [updated]

the.jedi writes "With the release of GTK+ 2.4, and Gnome 2.6 due out some time next week, it seems of some the Gnome developers are looking at how they'll be coding Gnome and the rest of the Linux desktop. Havoc Pennington of Planet Gnome has written a short blog pondering and analyzing the available options as coders move towards high-level languages like java and C#. He gives a good overview and assessment of technologies like mono, OO.org's UNO framework, as well as other ways of tying new languages to the existing code base. An extremely interesting read for desktop linux hackers everywhere." Update: 03/17 14:44 GMT by T : Speaking of the future of Gnome, aeneas writes with a list of Gnome 2.6 release parties around the world (linked from gnome.org/start/2.5).

Comments

Re:How about still using C

[johnnyb]

Not really disagreeing with you (although I see no reason to replace C with C++ - might as well go to a real language like LISP or Python), but the real reason that most companies switched to C++ is Microsoft. COM is only documented well in C++. Since Microsoft's compiler is essentially a C++ compiler (it may have a C-mode, can't remember), people code with the C++ extensions. So, some people claim to be writing C++ code, but it's really just spiffed up C.

Re:Too bad GNOME's architecture sucks...

[borgheron]

Actually, I was speaking from experience. GNOME's architecture does suck.