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Why on earth do they shy away from saying the word "Python" anywhere? Seems pretty relevant, considering it's a Python library. It's a pretty important fact for potential users, and one they would probably want to know sooner rather than later.

Personally, any sense of excitement and discovery I had upon visiting the front page was killed pretty flat when I spent a couple of minutes skimming the front page for what it's a library for, visiting 'About' and 'Docs', returning to the front page for a closer look, and finally figuring it out by taking a look at the sample source and noticing the reference to Cython.

The Github readme is much denser, and I think a lot of people would prefer this intro:

> Kivy is a Python library for development of multi-touch enabled media rich applications. The aim is to allow for quick and easy interaction design and rapid prototyping, while making your code reusable and deployable.

> Kivy is written in Python, based on OpenGL and supports different input devices such as: Mouse, Dual Mouse, TUIO, WiiMote, WM_TOUCH, HIDtouch, Apple's products and so on.



I had to go to the Wikipedia page for Kivy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivy

to find out that the "Kivy language" is QML! Seems to me that should have been spelt out a bit more clearly too.

It looks great!


No, it's not QML. It's similar in the concept, but that's all :) Look at our examples, you'll see how is it.




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