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"shouldn't Vala be a research branch of C#?" Vala is a nicer shinier layer for programming with GObject in C. I don't really understand what it has to do with
by bsznjyewgd 10y ago
"shouldn't Vala be a research branch of C#?"
Vala is a nicer shinier layer for programming with GObject in C. I don't really understand what it has to do with C#? Do you mean just the syntactic influence?
Keep in mind, lots of vocal people hated Mono, not just because of some vague looming threat of possible patent action, but because they disliked the memory heavy and slow startup nature of the runtime (see: Tomboy).
- carussell 10y ago1. Start with C# 2. Create research fork 3. Change it just enough until it can do what you're trying to get out of Vala right now (including whatever sweeping changes you want from the runtime by targeting GObject, so that it exhibits the static properties Vala wants here) Result: GNU/Gnome/Vala benefits from it, and the C#/.Net folks can benefit from it, if ever that research makes its way upstream. Which in turn brings another round of benefits to Vala's users and maintainers. My overall point is that symbiosis is nice. There's strength in numbers.