Comment Re:Woah (Score 2, Insightful) 488
Replace the "4" with "10" and you have OSX...
Replace the "4" with "10" and you have OSX...
One man's "stupid gimmicks" is another man's graceful and easy-to-use system.
I know the above sounds snarky, but I worked on Mac OS Classic for years, and was a linux user at home for years as well. I was *very* put off at first by OS X's eye candy and general fooferah. And then I actually used it ( 8 hours a day at work ), and realized it was fantastic. I ditched my Slackware running thinkpad for a powerbook, and never looked back.
I went through this dilemma a while back. I also wanted to embed a scripting language, and I read up on Tamarin and Webkit's JS engine. Both seemed really hard to work with outside of the browser space.
In the end I went with python; not because of the performance or the language ( JS is an awesome language ) but because the boost.python bindings system rocks my socks. It's hands-down beautiful.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.