In my opinion blessing other languages will create fragmentation. Developers from one application won't be able to help other applications because of the different language. We have a lot of examples, pantheon-files is one of them but also external libraries that doesn't really fit.
On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Jakob Eriksson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-08-21 22:35, Kurt Smolderen wrote: > >> look at the code. As Vala is currently missing a decent IDE (such as >> Eclipse,...) and debugging isn't as easy due to the fact the code is >> translated into C, its often very difficult to analyse the flow of a >> program. Available tests might help this initial contributors with > > > And when will it be "blessed" to create Elementary apps in another > language than Vala? If Elementary would "open up" to other languages, > we could REALLY see increased productivity and more contributors. > IMHO Objective C, C++ and maybe even Java via GCJ would be the obvious > candidates. > > --jakob > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
