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Re:An Introduction to C and GUI Programming by agentultra on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @03:03PM (#19741694)
For a typical SV B2C web application, sure, but we're talking about developing applications for a low-power device.

Knowing your target platform and your end goals can aid in planning. Planning your architecture ahead of time can save you from having to optimize later... and often optimizing later is harder than simply doing the easy, right thing first.

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Re:An Introduction to C and GUI Programming by vortico on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:19PM (#19743479)
"Low power" or "slow CPU" has nothing to do with it. When you have a bottleneck (GTK, X11/Wayland, video drivers) that is 100x more significant than the binding language (Python), switching languages will only buy you 1% speedup at best. I'm not saying to go forth unplanned. I'm saying that using C over Python in this case is a waste of time.
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