[OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Derick Rethans]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, kabum wrote:

> Am 3. April 2012 09:38 schrieb Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl>:
> 
> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, kabum wrote:
> >
> > > Some questions came up within this preparation:
> > > - Is there a prefered language? Has this to be specified within the
> > > proposal? (language skill has to be rated, so I would decide this during
> > > the project phase)
> >
> > Not really any preferred language. What did you have in mind? For the
> > front end I was thinking PHP, but the engine, I wouldn't know. I think
> > something high performant (so C or C++) might be benificial.
> 
> My thoughts were that it's easy to setup and it's capable to call it easy
> from a terminal or to include it in other python scripts (i.e. web
> frontend).
> 
> If C++ is necessary, because of it's speed, then I think I could master
> this. In the passed semester I participated in a software engineering
> partical training at university (in a team of five fellow students), where
> we have an extensive use of C++ (https://github.com/brainafk/Empire).

I don't think C/C++ is required, use whatever you feel works best for 
the project.

cheers,
Derick

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