in reply to Google Summer of Code 2006

I suppose my use AnyGUI proposal is too substantial a project for one person to tackle in a summer. Then again, GUIs are IMO Perl's number one weakness, and something like that could go a long way toward shoring up said weakness. Even if it only supported the "big four" GUIs (Win32, GTK, Qt, and Aqua), and even if it did not support all possible features right away, it would still be terribly useful, especially if it provided a nice API.

Sanity? Oh, yeah, I've got all kinds of sanity. In fact, I've developed whole new kinds of sanity. Why, I've got so much sanity it's driving me crazy.

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Re^2: Google Summer of Code 2006
by zentara (Cardinal) on Apr 16, 2006 at 10:53 UTC
    GUIs are IMO Perl's number one weakness,

    In what way? I think they are it's strength. I can whip up Perl GUI code faster in Perl, than anything else. There already is Tk, Gtk2, and WxWidgets which are cross platform. Most programmers don't like the very-high level uber-languages because they hide too much behind the scenes.

    I suppose I have to agree, that it would be nice to make installing the toolkits a bit easier. Tk is a breeze, but Gtk2 can be a hassle on linux, and a real PITA on Win32.

    What I would like to see is a java-like web browser plugin for Perl, so we can extend the GUI's into cgi.

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