Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[rantingrick]

On Jan 14, 3:37 pm, geremy condra <debat... at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you'd spent the
> last year programming instead of doing your best Xah Lee impression
> you might have actually made some progress on this.

Well Geremy the very first step a wise developer employs is to get an
idea of what the masses want and what they don't want. Nobody wants to
waste a second (much less a whole year) developing a wxPython stdlib
module when the powers that be won't even *entertain* the idea of a
wxPython stdlib module. Most every Python programmer (noob to pro)
understands that while Tkinter is a great starter GUI module
eventually you hit the glass ceiling. However for some strange and
quite ridiculous reason they insist on keeping Tkinter alive forever.
I am at a loss here.

Interviewer: So how do you feel about Tkinter?
Python Community: Well Tkinter sucks what more can i say?

Interviewer: Ok so maybe we should replace Tkinter with something
better then?
Python Community: What? Are you stupid? No it sucks but we will keep
it! And that is that! I have spoken!

Interviewer: So let me get this strait fella... You hate Tkinter, and
most of your constituents won't even bother to use it because they
hate it also *however* you just want to let it rot in the stdlib like
some aging hero of boredom and booze?
Python Community: Pretty much. Yea.

Interviewer: Sounds like a Masochistic psychosis to me.
Python Community:  ad hominem!,  ad hominem!