Language bindings

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Whilst KDE and most KDE applications are implemented using the C++ programming language, that doesn't mean you don't have a choice. A number of bindings to other languages are available, these include scripting languages like Perl, Python and Ruby, and systems programming languages like Java and C#.

The level of functionality provided by the bindings vary, from those that only allow you to access a small subset of KDE to bindings that almost rival C++ native code in scope.

Python
PyQt/PyKDE provide powerful python bindings to the Qt and KDE libraries.


Ruby
For Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language, there are also bindings for Qt and kdelibs.


Perl
There are object-oriented bindings for Qt-3. Qt-2 and KDE-2 bindings can be found on CPAN.


Java
Information about KDE support for Java applets, the QtAWT project, the Java Qt/kdelibs bindings and other ongoing KDE-Java development efforts.


JavaScript (ECMAScript)



KDE interaction tools
There are a few utilities provided as part of the KDE distribution that allow scripts etc. to access some of the functionality of KDE.


C#
Qt# binds the Qt toolkit with Mono, an open source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.


Smoke
Smoke is an interface library designed to ease the development of new language bindings.

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In computing, a binding from a language to a library or OS service is an API providing that service in the language.Many software libraries are written in systems programming languages such as C or C++. To use the services these libraries provide from another (usually higher-level) language such as Java, a Java binding to the library must be created.Software reuse is a major motivation for creating library bindings, rather than reimplementing the library in several languages. Another is the impossibility to implement certain algorithms (efficiently) in high-level languages.