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[Robert Helling]

Andrej,

> On 18.09.2015, at 02:42, Andrej Prsa <aprsa09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am an astrophysicist by day and I can tell
> you that most of our field is rapidly migrating all of the UI stuff to
> python. […]

> Your mileage may vary, of course, I just figured I'd ask because, if
> subsurface UI was in python, I'd be much better positioned to
> contribute to the code -- for whatever that's worth.


I am a physicist by day and before subsurface adopted Qt the only thing I knew about C++ was that it existed. At the time, I was really worried about that decision because I was afraid I could no longer contribute. The opposite turned out to be true: When you can build on what’s already there, the difference between C and C++ is infinitesimal (Linus lives on other levels of software engineering than me so this might be different for him). And I got along with Qt so much better than with GTK (to a large part because there is good documentation whereas it was in infinite trail an error for GTK for me) that I am now happy working on UI elements myself (at least up to mild complexity).

Just my $.02.

Robert

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