GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Carl Banks]

On Jun 8, 10:22 am, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2010-06-08, bart.c <ba... at freeuk.com> wrote:
> >  Why not: (Pyton ->) Tkinter-API -> Xlib ?
>
> Because maintain a set of Python bindings for Tk would be a lot more
> work.

That would be Tk-API.

Tkinter-API means write a GUI toolkit that has the same API as
Tkinter, which is s Python module.  So he suggests a native Python
toolkit (written as Python code or a C extension or both), that can
serve as a drop-in replacement for Tk-inter, that bypasses Tcl and Tk
altogether.

In the absense of other factors, it probably is better for an
interpreter for a language that claims to be a powerful for general-
purpose applications not to run another general-purpose interpreter to
do a common task like GUI.  Those other factors aren't absent though.


Carl Banks