Questioning the Choice of C++

Jakob — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:37:01 +0000

In FLOSS Weekly issue 57, about 20 minutes into the show, Randall Schwartz and Leo Laporte express genuine surprise that the XMBC media player application is all in C++. That is pretty telling, some parts of the computing world are indeed moving on to more modern pastures like Python, Perl, Ruby, and even Objective C (for the Mac people). And quite a contrast to the EDA world where C++ is still considered the new shiny thing, as I have lamented before… thanks for that small but golden genuine surprise, Randall and Leo!

But note that the application IS written in C++ still: that is the only choice on the xbox where the project started, by design by Microsoft. However, you can use my favorite scripting language Python to script and skin the application.

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Questioning the Choice of C++