Thread: How can we encourage iPhone developers to develop on Maemo?
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Originally Posted by tso View Post
i suspect this is one of the thing nokia is setting out to fix by switching to Qt.
Indeed. I also hope that the more powerful device will allow more people to develop by doing anything which requires a Linux system (such as running and debugging Maemo) to use an actual device rather than Scratchbox or a VM.

Anyway, this is the kind of thing I'll be touching on in my lighning session at the summit (including showing off features of the JVM such as hot-replace).

also, this may be the reason that python have gotten so much interest. besides the gui bits that requires a understanding of gtk/hildon, python is a interpreted language that can be written on any platform where there is a interpreter available. I think there are even people that use the N810 as a development platform directly as they can rewrite the python code on the spot.
*nods*. I wouldn't want to write lots of new code on the N810 (want lots of docs, and the keyboard's crap for coding), but I've certainly already done small patches to Attitude on the Tube.
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