Name: Anonymous 2011-01-02 16:29
Hello thar /prog/
A story and question for you.
A while back I used to work in a company where we had a client program they would rent out on touch tablets the company owned to customers. It would full-screen and then, on command, make various calls to either a MySQL server or another specialized server using JSON. It was programmed in VB.NET and I noticed that as the program had more windows forms added to it, and more code, the program itself began to act slow. Form elements began to take a few seconds to fully print on the screen, and switching between full-screened forms led to the taskbar showing over the program's face. Needless to say, this was very unprofessional looking.
TL;DR VB.NET is lame
Now I'm looking for an alternative programing language that can easily employ the windows GUI. I was thinking of trying out Python. What do you think /prog/?
A story and question for you.
A while back I used to work in a company where we had a client program they would rent out on touch tablets the company owned to customers. It would full-screen and then, on command, make various calls to either a MySQL server or another specialized server using JSON. It was programmed in VB.NET and I noticed that as the program had more windows forms added to it, and more code, the program itself began to act slow. Form elements began to take a few seconds to fully print on the screen, and switching between full-screened forms led to the taskbar showing over the program's face. Needless to say, this was very unprofessional looking.
TL;DR VB.NET is lame
Now I'm looking for an alternative programing language that can easily employ the windows GUI. I was thinking of trying out Python. What do you think /prog/?