On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:36:02PM +0100, David Greaves wrote: > I think my discomfort comes from the weak run-time type checking and the > verbiage... > check.set_active(TRUE); > seems so much less error prone; especially for people who have to pick up this > new toolkit (and that's got to be important for attracting developers to Maemo > and making their early experience pleasant). > > I mentioned gtkmm (hopefully not a sensitive topic) a moment ago - what are > peoples thoughts on that?
Vala is very interesting to me because (1) it's a high-level language
that is (2) compiled to C. You ought to get all the benefits of, say,
PyGtk (high-levelness, intuitive syntax, no repetetive mucking around
with typecasts) without the disadvantages (high memory usage).
Marius Gedminas
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
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