LinuxDevCenter.com: Linux for Video Production

"Although he wrote the first incarnation of PiTiVi in C, Hervey decided to rewrite the application in the popular high-level Python language. The main catalyst for the change was to encourage more people to participate in PiTiVi development; Python considerably lowers the bar for people to get involved. 'I'd really like to see all those people who are very knowledgeable at video editing be able to chip in to PiTiVi development, since they have a better idea of what they want,' Hervey says. He continues, 'Python is a very flexible and extensible language, and the plugin system for PiTiVi would be very hard to put into place if it were created in another language; here, the plugins really extend the application.'"