Honestly I think this is a good idea and could possibly be the thing I need to get started, I'm teaching myself C++ at the moment, I know C, python and java from before and I have made some simple programs...but its not just a case of learning a (new) programming language and then start hacking...for instance wxwidgets, while it probably is a very good tool to create GUI's with its not the easiest for someone who hasnt got alot of experience with GUIs compared to something like python and PyQT where you can create a text editor with limited knowledge of how QT (even python for that matter) works...and thats just the tip of the iceberg, theres probably lots of funky code that does incredible things in xara that might more or less require very good math and logic skills too understand, and vector math stuff (not sure its called that in english) ofcourse.
So my conclusion is that even though Xara would be a great project to work on its not very suitable for novice programmers but then again why not. If you would like to go forward with this then I'm in, but with above mentioned stuff in mind.
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