python is going to die! =(

[Toni Kantola]

In article <2rafspF17n18jU1 at uni-berlin.de>, RPM1 wrote:
> 
> "Tom Cocagne" <rakis at gmpexpress.net> ...
> 
>> There ARE sound IDEs
>> available for Python. Perhaps you should be asking why they aren't that
>> popular. Three possibilities come to mind 1) Python developers are just
>> plain stupid. Even though they know that quality IDEs exist and would
>> increase their produtivity, there just too dumb to use them. 2) Quality
>> IDEs exist and Python developers don't know about it. And 3) Python
>> developers are aware of the existence and capabilities of these IDEs and
>> just don't feel the need for them.
>>
> 
> I've been tinkering  with Python for a long time now, (~8 years),  and the
> lack of a standard GUI designer is annoying, (albeit a minor annoyance).  I
> myself don't care for any of the existing GUI designer packages, so I just
> code my GUI's without one.
> 
> I do notice though that when I try to convince a co-worker to try Python,
> the thing that seems to be the biggest turn off is the lack of an IDE with a
> GUI designer included standard.  I guess my point is that the lack of a
> standard GUI designer is not going to bother people who know Python, but it
> will prevent some, (perhaps many), outsiders from ever knowing Python
> because they can't imagine programming without the IDE/GUI designer.  I know
> there are GUI designers available, but by the time you begin to tell
> somebody that, they're already shaking their head and walking away.

And you haven't tried kdevelop with qtdesigner?
Or some similar combination of GTK-based IDEs/tools?

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