It’s time for the Big Code Port. Moving away from Java and into something else more easily linked in with our existing project (UnrealScript and Python). Options were C,C++,Python,C#. C++ is an old standby, but Python shows intriguing promise. The downside is I don’t know it yet, but the upside is that it’s one of those “always wanted to learn this” things.
Resource dump:
- Python Wiki: Python vs Java
- Python Wiki: Eclipse/Python Integration
- PyDev (what looks like the best Python-for-Eclipse plugin out there today)
- IBM tutorial on Python integration with Eclipse and Ant
- Dive into Python (an excellent tutorial for someone in my shoes)
I’m excited about Python, especially the glowing words Paul Graham has for it. I’m not excited about the whitespace-based syntax of Python or the loss of the wonderful dev environment of Java in Eclipse… Definitely not excited about porting my 15k lines of code, or however many i’ve put into the current (soon-to-be-prior) manifestation of my project.