Python vs C++

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/21/2014 07:39 AM, Burak Arslan wrote:
> For my day job, I chose Qt on C++ for a classic desktop app that needs
> to be deployed on Windows (among other platforms) with an installation
> package that is as small as possible.
> 
> All I need to do deployment-wise is to create an NSIS script putting a
> couple of DLL's and my executable in a folder in %ProgramFiles% and a
> shortcutin start menu. The full package is 5 megs and the update archive
> is pushing half a megabyte.
> 
> I was also back to C++ after a number of years of exclusive web dev with
> Python and Javascript. C++11 is just *sweet*, I'd never imagined I'd
> enjoy doing non-computer-sciencey work with C++.

Definitely second the idea of using Qt and C++ to build something.  Qt
is natively C++, so it's most at home there.  Qt works fine in other
languages, like Python, but it's not a perfect fit there because Qt is
based on the C++ object model.