[SOLVED] Programming language possibly python3 / with Qt

Hooks123 · 10-14-2018, 09:41 PM

Hey folks, I know this isn't slackware specific but i really trust the people on this forum. You are all i know in the linux world.

Anyway, professionally i am a senior .net windows developer and have been for about 15 years. Mainly console apps and GUI apps. I have written and supported by myself over 300 apps (about 20 of them has been pretty significant and used by over 2500 people).

My question, I'm really wanting to learn some other languages and how to do things in a linux environment. I would like to know what dev environment you use for maybe python development? Remember i come from visual studio. Im just looking for something that i can play around with simple GUIs and maybe some QT programming.

Any input would help me a bunch. I have read so many tutorials online that i don't know where to start.

Thanks

Richard Cranium · 10-14-2018, 09:47 PM

Python's a good language and is multi-platform. It's weak on multi-threading however; google "python GIL" for details.

There's not really the equivalent of .NET in the linux world, AFAIK.

montagdude · 10-14-2018, 10:10 PM

I think Python and Qt5 are a good choice. I would also recommend C++ as a compiled language (though I recognize that is heresy to some people). This site has some good introductory Python and Qt5 tutorials:

http://zetcode.com/

Skaendo · 10-14-2018, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

There's not really the equivalent of .NET in the linux world, AFAIK.

There's always Mono https://www.mono-project.com/

But I agree with the others, python and or QT would be a good place to land.
(Because not many Linux users like mono, including myself)

Richard Cranium · 10-15-2018, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Skaendo

There's always Mono https://www.mono-project.com/

But I agree with the others, python and or QT would be a good place to land.
(Because not many Linux users like mono, including myself)

Fair enough about Mono; I was attempting to say that there really isn't a language with the same relationship to Linux as .NET has for MicroSoft Windows.

Hooks123 · 10-15-2018, 03:23 PM

Thanks for the feedback folks. I appreciate it. Im going to stick with python and QT. Right now im messing around with the PyCharm IDE.

Didier Spaier · 10-15-2018, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Hooks123

Thanks for the feedback folks. I appreciate it. Im going to stick with python and QT. Right now im messing around with the PyCharm IDE.

Be aware that by default the Slackware package for Qt is built without the doc, demos and examples. You might want to rebuild it with all that.

Also, the examples are in C++. You might like to learn a bit of C++ to understand them, if not yet done.

Last, Qt ships with Qt assistant and QT designer, so why not use them: it certainly speeds up development in C++ a lot.

Hooks123 · 10-15-2018, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

Be aware that by default the Slackware package for Qt is built without the doc, demos and examples. You might want to rebuild it with all that.

Also, the examples are in C++. You might like to learn a bit of C++ to understand them, if not yet done.

Last, Qt ships with Qt assistant and QT designer, so why not use them: it certainly speeds up development in C++ a lot.

Thanks. I'll check it out.