Re: [rox-devel] GIO branch

[Alex A. <cir...@gm...>]

Vala? C#-like language with native access to GObject. Compiler outputs C
which is then fed through GCC.

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Thomas Leonard <ta...@gm...> wrote:

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> ...
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> I think I need to pick a new language first, though. Developing in C
> is just too painful, but Python does have rather a lot of overhead,
> and a lack of static type-checking. Haskell is way too slow, and
> probably not well suited to this kind of thing.
>
> D looked nice. It is OO, and has garbage collection and exceptions,
> but it's not too heavy and it's much cleaner than C++. However, the
> GCC front-end (GDC) is completely unmaintained and the LLVM front-end
> only supports the obsolete D1 version. Also, D programs tend to suffer
> from segfaults due to dereferencing null-pointers (as with C). Last
> year, I patched support for nullable/non-null types into D's type
> system so the compiler can statically ensure that you never try to use
> a pointer that might be null:
>
>  http://delight.sourceforge.net/
>
> I also added native support for GObject bindings, so you can access C
> libraries using GObject as if they had an object-oriented D interface,
> but I didn't get as far as integrating it with the garbage collector
> and it's probably a bit buggy. I also replaced the curly braces C
> syntax with Python-style indentation.
>
> ...
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