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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by DrJosiah on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:01AM (#19103124)
ctypes is a thing, and gives you access to the world of runtime-loadable libraries on your platform. Beyond that, C modules for Python by hand, SWIG, Cython (can take Python 3.x annotations now), etc., are not bad at all.

Can you explain how platform-specific stuff takes "a lot of work" with Python, and wouldn't with some other language that is not Python?

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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by saagarjha on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:58AM (#19103957)
> Can you explain how platform-specific stuff takes "a lot of work" with Python, and wouldn't with some other language that is not Python?

Sure, just look at a modern Cocoa app written in Swift, or Android one in Java, and compare it to the amount of work you'd have to do to shoehorn Python in there.

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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by viraptor on Thursday February 07, 2019 @06:33AM (#19104549)
Like this? https://pybee.org/project/using/ios-app/ https://pybee.org/project/using/android-app/
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by DrJosiah on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:26PM (#19107169)
That doesn't look bad. I might actually want to write apps now.
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by viraptor on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:22PM (#19108199)
Missing /s. Yes - I meant there are nice options.
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Re:Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code fr... by DrJosiah on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:23PM (#19111513)
viraptor makes a very compelling case for at least 1 option for mobile apps in Python.

About 15.5 years ago while I was still a grad student, I released a (horribly designed, mostly self-experimentation) editor in Python + wxPython that I initially wrote to run on Windows. I didn't run it regularly in Linux or OS X until 2008, and it all just worked. OS X was a little laggy with my editor, but hey, write once run on 3 platforms.

Python is really solid on multi-platform, because there are so many Python users already using every platform that want to bring Python there.

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