Future of PythonWin?

Neil Hodgson neilh at scintilla.org
Tue Jun 6 20:43:32 EDT 2000


> I agree that MFC seems to be on the way out ...
> 2) What's next?
> - STL?  Yes, but that's not a GUI.
> - ATL & WTL?  Too MS only.
> - wxWindows?  Only has a tiny fraction of the number of users & code that
> the other options have.
> - TCL/TK?  I've heard this is slow, and it can't create native windows'
apps
> (users want the windows look & feel).
> - Java?  Again, too proprietary.

   It looks to me like the future of UIs (and I think this is the MS
direction as well) is HTML and related standards. MS has put a lot of effort
into HTML generation and bridges between HTML and code.

   Neil






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