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Camp Counselor (https://line72.net/software/camp-counselor/ https://line72.net/software/camp-counselor/). This is a GNOME application for managing your bandcamp
by l72 3y ago
Camp Counselor (https://line72.net/software/camp-counselor/ https://line72.net/software/camp-counselor/). This is a GNOME application for managing your bandcamp.com wishlist.
My wishlist has grown to >1000 albums on bandcamp. It has become more of a "things to check out" rather than an actual wishlist. I need to be able to keep ratings and notes on the albums as a listen to them. (Even if I don't like an album, I keep it in my wishlist with a low rating and notes).
I wrote it in Gtk4 with Vala, as a chance to learn Vala. I haven't done any desktop software since the Gtk 2 days.
Part of this decision was that I use a pinephone with phosh as my primary music player, so I wanted a native mobile app.
- fuzztester 3y agoNice. So how was it working with Vala?
- l72 3y agoI have generally enjoyed the language. My biggest issue is that documentation is somewhat limited outside of the core libraries, and being a niche language, you have some limited resources for help. It is nice having a language that compiles to C with all the latest expectations of modern languages (lambdas, closures, async, and so on). I have not even attempted to compile for Windows or Mac OS yet.