Current Toolset

Because there are so many choices when developing software, I am trying to standardize on a relatively restricted toolset.

Programming Languages

Current Python (easy to use, but slow, and hard to share with others) C/C++ for legacy computer forensics software. Java (because it runs faster than C++ and is more portable)

Goal Python (easy to use, but slow, and hard to share with others) Java (because it runs faster than C++ and is more portable) Scala

GUI Systems

Current & Past Cocoa on MacOS Python with wxwidgets

Goal Java Swing Python with tkinter (wxwidgets is better, but it is not installed by default and it is hard to get working sometimes.)

There are many better systems, like Cocoa on MacOS. But if you want other people to use your software, it's best sticking with technologies that other people have.

Statistics and Graphing

Current Custom-written programs in Python matplotlib for graphing

Goal I am trying to move to R.