I've still got all this stuff on my TODO to study in depth and make comments on, just been too busy with everything else to get to it yet. So it's likely it will all be finished and set in stone before I get a chance to contribute. Though this is Enlightenment, I can always wait for the next rewrite. B-)
But since you asked, I can give my entirely uninformed opinions ... On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:28:10 -0300 [email protected] wrote: > Also, in my opinion it's unlikely that we can write a better program > in C in this case. Karma does an awesome job in terms of syntax, > maintainance and performance. It's concise, lean, easy to write, easy > to read (when you get used to it of course, like most of the > things). Dropping it over a code that simply compiles faster but it's > harder to read and maintain it's probably a bad idea. What do you > think? I've also not even heard of this Karma language, but as it is we have C, Edje, Embryo, Lua, Autofoo, make, M4, Unix shell scripting, ... It might be better to try to use one of the existing languages EFL developers might have to deal with already to see if it fits the purpose, before adding Yet Another Language into the mix. Especially adding an obscure one I've never heard of, and I'm good at obscure languages. B-) I have a feeling Lua could do the job. I think I commented before on one of the examples that it looked like Lua, though it wasn't Lua. Lua has the advantages you mentioned, plus the big advantage of already being part of EFL. So It's not something extra or new, it's already there, as a dependency even. In fact, this Karma language is not part of the huge Ubuntu software repos, that's how obscure it is. Having to hunt down issues for an obscure language with a name so common any google hits on it will be drowned out by other uses of the word "karma" will be a big obstacle to adoption. I know, you might argue that only you and your cojoined twin brother ever need to actually deal with this Karma language, but that wont be the case. It's Yet Another Language EFL coders might have to deal with. Me, I eat obscure languages for breakfast, but I know most people would be put off by that. tl,dr - Karma's a bitch. B-) -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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