Re: What languages/toolkit to use for the new GUI?

[zorkshin () tampabay rr com]

Question: What about a completely web-based (PHP/Perl/Python/etc) 
based GUI? Rather than bother with messy gui libraries or Java, it 
would make it very elegant as a cross platform tool (in general).

Justin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Grodås, Ole Morten" <omgrodaas () hsbs mil no>
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2005 10:54 am
Subject: What languages/toolkit to use for the new GUI?

> What properities does the languages need?
> - Crosspaltform. Have to work well both on windows and linux
> - Mature XML and SQL libraries
> - more?
>
>
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> JAVA
> + Most computers already have java installed
> + Mature XML and SQL libararies
> + Fast development
> - Large memory footprint
> - Long startup time
> - nmap is written in C
>
> C++ and QT4 (all version will be released under the GPL)
> + Fast, small memory footprint
> + Mature XML and SQL libararies
> + Nmap is written in C
> - Using C++ can lead to more bugs
>
>
> Comments?
> What toolkit/language does the community prefer?
>
>
>
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