On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 14:11 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > I've been thinking about what language I should choose if and when I > start writing a significant program using G* libraries. I don't want > to write GObjects in C any more. All that boilerplate, casting > macros, manual set up of vtables and explicit reference counting. I > will make mistakes with it. I thought I saw that Javascript was going to the language of choice for GNOME - yet I haven't seem much else on that front. Your question is an important one - I've been thinking the opposite - that perhaps it is best to abandon the 'nicer' languages and just go back to C. More boilerplate perhaps - but less drama. > Vala is very attractive, but I'm afraid I have to side with the > doomsayers. Ditto. It looks like C# to me - mono on GNOME was great - but the momentum is gone. Not something I want to make a wager on. > So there's Python. The one contender with C, IMO. > supported. But... its runtime has a poor reputation for efficiency, > and it can't truly multithread on multiple cores. As someone who had many tens of thousands of lines of code in Python - the multi-threaded issues are ***GROSSLY*** exagerated. It is not a real-world problem. > Its GI bindings are somewhat opaque ie it's difficult to find out > what members a class has, or a function's signature, if separate > documentation hasn't been provided. Absolutely true; to often the answer is "look at the C docs and try to translate". Which is a serious waste of time. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/> _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
