[boost] Re: GUI Library Proposal for a Proposal

George van den Driessche wrote:

Yes - this was the one major benefit that I could think of when I wrote my original reply. But once you've exposed the data in question to the scripting language of your choice, you gain quite a bit: - By attaching validation routines and the like in your scripting layer, you can tune these without having to rebuild your program, or even restart it if you're lucky. - You can plug data and validation routines into UI elements using your UI design tool!

The one area where C++ is weaker than other languages for design time UI, and component, development is in its lack of a general run-time reflection mechanism. That is the only area which I see that is holding it back.