On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 15:57:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:27:29 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 18:41 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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However the GStreamer folk are backing Rust (for memory safety
issues noted earlier) so even though D has a GStreamer binding
(thanks to Mike and GtkD) I more or less have to use Rust
because it is the official binding. Comparing and contrasting
D and Rust is interesting for me. Both have many pluses and
many minuses. However, in the end, the GStreamer core people
know C, C++ a bit, D not at all. I suspect even if the choice
had been Rust or D, Rust would have been chosen because it has
no GC and D is a GC language.
Not only GStreamer, Rust is on its way to become an offical
GNOME language, and who knows, eventually take over Vala's role.
I haven't followed Gnome+Rust news. What suggests Rust may be on
its way to become an official Gnome language?
I'd think that people looking to write apps for Gnome would be
more inclined to use a *higher*-level language, like D (see GtkD)
or Python (see PyGObject) rather than a lower-level one like Rust
where there's a need to deal with borrowing and lifetimes.
Another possible contender I'd forgotten about:
[Kotlin/Native](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native). I
see they have some sample code for using GTK:
<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples/gtk>.
