Video: Writing Titanium Desktop Apps with Python

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Much as I love JavaScript, for full-monty app development Python hurts my head much, much less.

I really love the Titanium products. They've come a long way in the last year or so, these guys are like another github.... They have some serious talent who can really ship!

However, rather than just running a Python interpreter in Javascript, it would be better if they could natively expose their API as a proper Python library.

The problem I have with Titanium Desktop apps is that the user needs to have the titanium APIs on their machines. For a bundled package, 80+ megabytes for a simple one-window app is just too much.

I'm not so sure. My experience with Titanium Desktop has been lots of bugs that get tracked but have no discussion or updates. The API documentation is often completely wrong and simple bugs don't seem to get fixed for months. Just look at the forums for dozens of examples. I think the problem is that they make no money on the core product. I'd much prefer if they'd charge $500 and build a bigger team with the revenue to really support their products.

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