On 13-11-10 06:25 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote:
Am 10.11.2013 05:44, schrieb Matthew Brush:
Hi all,
In the spirit of the previous discussions about using C99 and C++ in
Geany code with similar subject lines, I'd like to take a
poll/discussion for allowing the use of Vala for new/re-written Geany
code. The pros and cons likely will be slightly biased since I would
obviously like to use Vala in Geany, but here they are anyway:
I'm undecided: on the one hand I would love if we could use Vala for new
Gobject-related and OOP code, but on the other hand Geany is full of
non-gobject code and Vala is still young, not widespread and
un-standardized.
The idea is exactly that; to use it for new/re-factored code, which as
its re-factored would become nice maintainable, bindable (for plugins)
GObject-style code[1]. Agree it's still young, but as long as it's not
just going to vanish[2], it's hard to avoid this with any non-C/C++
language (ex. you could make the same argument against D or Go or any
other not really old technology, it's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy
when approached like that).
I'm not against going the Vala route but I guess my uncertainty counts
as a no.
Perhaps we should first make it easier to write plugins in Vala (heck,
merge some bindings already) and see how it plays out.
Any parts of core that are written in Vala would be automatically
bindable to plugins (assuming some re-working of the plugin-related code
and such), thus reducing the stuff in the manually maintained and
already somewhat out of date .vapi file.
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
[1]: And to be clear, Geany also does have some GObject-style code, we
have several GObjects already, we use a toolkit based on GObject and
IIRC Enrico even said before that had he known GObject better at the
time, Geany code would be having lots more of the same.
[2]: And if it did vanish, since it's using the same framework we
already use, it could trivially (and boringly) be ported 1:1 back to C code.
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