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Development/Languages

KDE supports several programming languages for KDE 4 development.

Stable and Mature

Support for these languages is mature, fully maintained and suitable for application development:

• C++
• Python
• Ruby

In Development

Support for these languages is still in development:

• C#
• PHP
• Lua

Bindings Technologies and Embedding

• Smoke - Provides infrastructure which is used for creating bindings for multiple languages such as Ruby, C# and PHP.

• Kross - Provides embedded scripting for C++ applications. Multiple languages such as Python, Ruby, JavaScript, QtScript, Falcon and Java are supported.

• QtScript - The QtScript binding generator.

• SIP - Used to generate the bindings for Python.

Support for Qt3 / KDE3

• Perl
• Java
• JavaScript (ECMAScript)
• KDE interaction tools (Shell)