From: Dr. Michael Lauer <mic...@vanille.de>
Sent: Friday, 22 July 2016, 15:42
Subject: Re: [Vala] Just a news I've read about popularity langage
> As an embedded system engineer I see huge potential using Vala in embedded
> Linux, it has not the runtime drawback of python and java, and is way
> simpler to use than C++, while C# has no porting to ARM.
Yes. Unfortunately though the very useful POSIX profile has been removed from
VALA
and no substitute has been added.
With a bit of work you could code without any dependency on GLib/GObject.The
basic types, int, etc. , can be rebound in a new binding. See the
glib-2.0.vapifor how int is bound to gint, etc. and then chance those to
standard C.
Last time I tried I seem to remember a problem with valac when using
--nostdpkgSo that may need to be fixed first.
On IRC someone said they were using musl instead of glibc for Vala programs.
Not using GLib would still have the advantages of namespaces, compact classes
andVala's assisted memory management for bindings. So the loss of the Posix
profileis not such a great loss, it depends on what you are trying to achieve.
If you want more sophisticated features like async have a look
at:https://github.com/apmasell/avr-vala
On the other hand a few megabytes for GLib is not a lot for modern
"embedded" systems running a linux distro.
Al
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