On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:04:00 -0700 John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
Hello all, > What is the motivation for compiling everything as C++ if it's still > really C and you have to wrap everything in extern "C" {} to get it > to link, especially in gnome and register directories, which can't be > converted to C++? when I visited #gnucash the other day I heard about the plan to (slowly) move to C++. Although I'm aware that I do not have 'currency' to influence the switch, I'd just like to give my 0.02hrk (1$ ~ 5.8hrk) and propose to (just) consider using Go language instead. Here is nice article http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article explaining about the reason to conceive the language which is solving some of the performance problems encounted when building large C++ apps. Moreover, it is meant to be easily approachable for the developers being familiar with C (which is not really the case with C++) and we could say that Go is kind of 'modern C'. Not wanting to go deeper into any sort of argumentation being more than happy that Gnucash is givne to me for free this is just attempt to my side in order to provide some feedback to make GC even better developer-wise. Sincerely, Gour -- The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence. http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel