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Programming language recommendation?

lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
edited 2012-07-21 14:23 in General Discussion
I'm toying with the idea of writing my own app for aligning sequences of photographs. I use a couple of apps that get the job done but I would write one that's perfect for the way I like to work. I want to manipulate JPEG and TIFF files on a PC.

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  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2012-07-21 07:50
    C/C++ is usually used for that sort of application.
  • lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
    edited 2012-07-21 08:11
    Thanks Leon. I won't waste time researching something like Java. Learning another programming language will involve a major commitment and I don't want to waste effort.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-07-21 08:16
    Go Language is supposed to be the next "step up" from C/C++ , and seems pretty cool so far. And its free. It's my current favorite language for the PC.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28programming_language%29

    In addition to crunching data and other typical PC functions, its nice for making communications channel interface to a micro controller and other processors.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-21 09:38
    Perl, together with ImageMagick (i.e. PerlMagick) is an amazingly powerful combo for tackling image-processing tasks. Perl has a rather steep learning curve, and not everybody likes it. But once mastered, and given the huge CPAN repository of modules, there is little that it can't do.

    -Phil
  • CircuitsoftCircuitsoft Posts: 1,166
    edited 2012-07-21 14:23
    You may want to consider one of the script-fu variants. Perl and Python are both offered, and they run embedded inside GIMP, so all the low-level operations (GEGL?) are directly available.
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