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Hello, World in GTK with Vala

• GrumpyNl 5y ago
  Thats a lot of code to write "Hello world".
  • brnt 5y ago
    Most (all?) GUI frameworks are indeed frameworks, and require a bit of ceremony.
• hactually 5y ago
  Love Gnome, love Gtk... But damn do I hate Vala. Esp that it compiles to C and you get to debug both I wish that JS/Go/C were where they ended up as the languages for the platform.
  • _ph_ 5y ago
    There are nice Gtk bindings for Go, give it a try. Feels quite native.
    • brnt 5y ago
      How is the cross platform compilation story with these bindings?
      • _ph_ 5y ago
        I haven't tried that. I have ran the same Go-Gtk program on Linux and Mac, but recompiled on both systems.
• sp1rit 5y ago
  > For the purpose of the demonstration, we're going to use Gtk.Grid to create a grid container widget. why exactly? a GtkBox is would do just fine, looks better and it's easier to handle programmatically than the grid.
  • chauhankiran 5y ago
    No specific reason. I just pick Grid and continue with it.
• dylan-m 5y ago
  I like that this goes straight into more advanced topics after doing the basic “Hello world” thing. One suggestion: once you ended up with three copies of that label I was thinking that’s a good opportunity to do some property binding, which is an extremely useful feature.