pros and cons of C++ vs Python - opinions please

[marcin at saepia.net]

I would suggest to take a look on Vala - it has syntax close to C# but
compiles down to native code, and is designed to work well with
GObject-based libraries, such as GStreamer. You will gain both nice
syntax and efficiency.

m.

2012/7/18 Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk>:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 10:33 -0400, Chuck Crisler wrote:
>
>> I will soon be developing a gstreamer replacement for a VLC
>> application. I have been a C++ programmer for over 20 years, working
>> with gstreamer for the last 2. I could almost build the code (OK, I
>> would have to research the plugins) in my sleep. But there is this new
>> thing (not really, but somewhat) called Python that works with
>> gstreamer. The application that I will develop is stand-alone in the
>> sense that it is invoked from a different application. What are the
>> relative merits of using Python vs. C++? Currently, no one in our shop
>> does Python so this would be the first app. I can't say if it would
>> ever be the only app. Thank you for different opinions.
>
> It depends a bit on the C++ "flavour" you're after as well.
>
> If you are happy to just use the GStreamer C API and build your
> application in C++, that would be my recommendation.
>
> Otherwise there are GStreamer-Qt and GStreamermm (Gtk) C++ bindings for
> GStreamer, but the problem with these is that there is not a huge user
> base for them and that there are no major applications (yet) that use
> them, so they've had considerably less exposure in real-world
> applications than, say, the python-gst bindings.
>
> If you don't have other reasons to switch to python, I wouldn't do it
> just for this (but if you do, you should be aware of the upcoming
> gst-0.10/python-gst to gst-0.11/1.0/py-gi transition).
>
> Cheers
>  -Tim
>
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