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Comment by ericfrederich | Hacker News Reader

I hate that something like this is possible.

This gives people who know only bash the ability to create a mess rather than learn a real scripting language like Python.

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Python elitism cannot challenge the glory of the Hack. :)

I've tried writing a GTK 3 app in python, it was pretty horrible. The GTK XML format is very annoying to work with, and writing interfaces programmatically requires using an automatically generated C->python API, which has essentially no documentation.

I didn't find GTK2 with Glade all that difficult.

But eventually I dropped GTK and switched to Qt. I thought they worked through all the common issues with better solutions.

Are there any GTK bindings that feel "native"? These automatically generated bindings are almost as “ugly” and uncomfortable as using GObjects in C.

They could accomplish this and worse in Pyhon.

All the languages provide the tools to create a mess, the only external dependency is the user. This can be abused quite destructively, but with good intentions it can be used for testing purposes or making a tiny interface to a library. Why throw the baby with the bathwater?

I'm trying to understand your position.

Would you rather that something like this not be possible or that people would not create things like this?

You should be able to do something like this in PowerShell on Windows already; .NET types are easy to use in it.

Since I haven't heard any screams of anguish coming from Windows people, I wouldn't worry about it.

I think the same thing was said about Javascript when node.js was created.

And rightly so. It would be much better to be running Python in the browser than to be running Javascript on the server.

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