[Zope] Zope vs Kylix?

[Luciano Ramalho]

Comparing Zope to Kylix is like comparing an automobile with a
powerboat. The only similary is that both are vehicles, but they are
designed for completely different purposes. 

Kylix does not provide anything like ZODB, the ZMI (Zope Management
Interface), the sophisticated permissions machinery, a search engine
like ZCatalog, web-based development tools like ZClasses, ZSQLMethods
etc.

The programming language of Kylix, Object Pascal, is much lower level
than Python and even Java, since it does not provide automatic garbage
collection, AFAIK (you must manage memory by hand, like in C). You will
have to write a lot of code to do many things that are simple with DTML
or Python Scripts. And you will have to write a lot more code to develop
anything close to any the features of Zope that I just mentioned (ZODB,
ZMI, permissions, ZCatalog, ZClasses, ZSQLMethods).

However, if I needed to develop a desktop application with a very rich
and interactive GUI, like a specialized editor, a game or a real-time
graphic display for some data-aquisition hardware, I would certainly
choose Kylix over Zope or any other tool that used a web browser as a
client-side interface.

Really, there is no comparison between Zope and Kylix. And that does not
imply any superiority by one over the other. They are just completely
different beasts. You could compare Python and Kylix, or Zope and
WebObjects, but that's another story...

Regards,

Luciano

Jason Ooi wrote:
> 
> This is not to start a religious war or anything like it and this is probably
> not the right list to post this too. I am a zope developer who as most of us
> fell in luv with zope then python. My luck in running out as I am being
> driven to use kylix instead of zope for web developement. I have heard kylix
> is good for cross platform application developement but slacks in web apps. I
> have seen the codes in kylix n oh wow man from the surface it looks like zope
> is so much simplier. Personally I choose zope over kylix but I need a
> comparison of some sort to maybe prolong my stay in the zope realm.
> 
> thanx,
> archer
> 
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