# From notebook code to the actual program with C++ **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 24, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-notebook-code-to-the-actual-program-with-c/1000679 "2024-04-24T02:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-notebook-code-to-the-actual-program-with-c/1000679/41 "2024-05-01T21:13:15Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > It seems like one would be pretty advanced before having to worry about differences in different Absolutely (for the OPers purposes there is no difference between GCC and Clang) but getting a natively compiled windows executable for Clang on windows is easier than GCC ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-notebook-code-to-the-actual-program-with-c/1000679/42 "2024-05-01T21:13:31Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > it’s something else, Python is a good choice. I am very late to reply to this thread, but I need to champion Kotlin, a reasonably new language. It was originally popular in the Android app dev world, but it also works great as a back-end language. It takes the best concepts from C, C#, Java, Python, Ruby and others. It runs on the JVM. It is an ECMA language that can be compiled or used as a scripting language. My kids are still on Scratch level, which is effectively a drag/drop logic language, but next up for them is python and Kotlin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-notebook-code-to-the-actual-program-with-c/1000679.md?page=2)