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by coldtea 4717 days ago
>I like C# and I'm impressed with Mono but there is just something not right. It might be irrational but knowing that Microsoft's DNA is everywhere makes me feel uncomfortable. (...) I'm also not happy that Linux is a second class citizen

The first kind of thinking is what got us into the second kind of situation.

Enjoy ...Vala.
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jnbiche 4717 days ago
Vala is an incredible project. With a relatively small number of contributors, it's turned into an easy language to work with, that can compile into shared libraries with automatic bindings for Python, Ruby, Lua, etc., and get near C performance. GTK bindings are pretty complete. With some effort (I hear -- never tried it), it can even run on Windows and OSX. Vala may be one of the most underrated Linux projects around.

What's wrong with Vala?

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yapcguy 4717 days ago
Vala looks interesting.

It would appear that with GTK libraries available on Windows and OSX, a port of a Vala app should be trivial. Valac compiles to C and then GCC takes over for the rest of it.

It seems like the most well-known Vala apps are managed in San Francisco by Yorba, however they're only for Linux. http://www.yorba.org/projects/

Any examples of cross-platform apps written in Vala?

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yulaow 4717 days ago
the problem is that Vala is strongly linked with only gtk making impossible to use it with others ui libraries.
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_random_ 4716 days ago
They needed a GUI language and decided to go for a C-derived imperative one? That's an option I guess. At least it's not Python.
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jlgreco 4717 days ago
> The first kind of thinking is what got us into the second kind of situation.

Or, the current situation is a vindication of that sort of thinking.

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