Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

[Mike Alexander]

--On December 28, 2010 10:27:48 PM +0100 Christian Stimming 
<stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:

> It seems to me my C++ experiment (as I would call it) has still not
> yet been  understood the way I thought, so I'll elaborate a bit on
> what I did and what  my conclusions are. Incidentally, I'm a
> scientist. If I make some claim, I  better get some arguments
> together that support it.

In a previous job I was part of a group that reimplemented a 
significant part of an XML editing and publishing application that 
consisted of several million lines of mostly C code in C++.  My 
experience with this agrees almost entirely with Christian's comments. 
The GUI is hard, modern tool kits and languages make it a lot easier, 
but it's still hard.  Unless there is some other reason to reimplement 
things it probably isn't worth the trouble.

          Mike