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From: "Paolo Donadeo" <p.donadeo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?
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> In contrast, you can implement a GUI toolkit in OCaml that far exceeds the
> relevant limitations of Qt4 with quite easily.

Jon, did you ever used Qt in a big C++ or Python project? Qt is the
best GUI framework out there, GTK is a ridiculous toy in comparison,
and it took ages to reach this level of "completeness". Frankly, I
think you are heavily undervaluing the task of building a *decent* GUI
from scratch.


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Paolo
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