I agree, mem management is a huge benefit. Now please explain how C/GTK wasn’t even worse than C++ in that regard ? At least C++ has strong data structures, and Qt provides a nice tree model which lets you forget about mem management for 90% of the objects you use (and some containers too).

If you’re trying to convince me that C# is a better language for GUIs than C++, you’re preaching a convert. What remains however is providing a good graphic toolkit with it, because no amount of language frills will help you if you don’t have good layouts and a sensible widget hierarchy. Java and Swing painfully demonstrated that.

Am not sure where you emailed me, but it did not reach me. Maybe your stuff got flagged as spam.

Object orientation does play a role, but the worst really is the lack of automatic memory management, the memory leaks, the overflows, the reused objects that were freed already, the countless hours of purify/insure and these days valgrind.

Love Guillaume, love!
Miguel

Anyway, just in case : come on. In C/GTK you spend half your time emulating C++ features by hand (namely, an object model). So you did have some stuff in C that were worth recreating, didn’t you ? Bottom line : you still discarded a pretty good dev platform (C++/Qt) in favor of something which was much, much worse (C/GTK). I don’t think this dead horse is worse flogging again.

(and worpress sucks at not letting you input ‘+’ signs in comments indeed – had to post-edit)

Miguel