Help me pick prgramming language for app

[G_Morgan]

Originally Posted by BBK

G_Morgan, afaik python has extensive libraries.
the rest of what you wrote went flying past my head - lol
there are many java open source trading applications in varying degrees of development and at the risk of sounding like a total idiot, I don't like the way they "look" - I mean aesthetics, nothing to do with the guts of the program. I just hate the java "look" know what I mean?

[ducks and runs]

Python has extensive libraries on Unix systems. Getting them to work on Windows is another thing.

You don't like the Swing metal theme then? Swing now has passable native emulation (though you have to specify that you want to use it in the program). If you don't trust it then there's always SWT which actually uses the native widgets on each platform similar to wxwidgets with Python. There are also bindings to most native widget sets directly. Swing is not the only option.

The point is even on Unix the JVM has much better library support than Python and it's libraries will generally work on every platform. There are Java bindings to almost every library imaginable.

The wonderful thing is you can reasonably take advantage of this without subjecting yourself to Java thanks to the wonders of JRuby and various other languages than now run on the JVM.

[Victor]

You can also configure the look and feel of Java applications. You can give it a native look easily:

try {
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
        UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
  System.out.println("Unable to load native look and feel");
}

There are also sites that provide look and feels that have been specially written like Home - javootoo.com
I'm not a fan of the default Swing look and feel either