Vala is translated in C/GLib before it's built, that means so many data
structures in assembly, that means overhead. And, Vala was quite unstable
the latest time I tried it, throwing meaningless low level exceptions (a *
good* inheritance from C).

2012/2/27 Brian Duffy <[email protected]>

> Personally, after quite a while deciding what language to use for my
> project, I went with Vala. I just did not want to deal with writing my
> application in C. If Vala could gain an excellent IDE with a proper visual
> debugger that isolated you from the underlying C code then I think that
> would make for a nice development environment. Problem is, I don't see the
> community getting this done with Vala. I'm just happy that they have done
> what they have! It's amazing really. However, you can't escape the fact
> that many of these contributions are made by people with other, more
> pressing responsibilities. The most successful ones are often sponsored by
> a larger company, but there contributions are sometimes limited to that
> company's needs.
>
> My biggest hope is for a company like Canonical to spend a good deal of
> time and money and develop a kick ass Vala IDE/Debugger and API even if
> they have to charge for it.
>
>
>
> 2012/2/27 Konstantin Evdokimenko <[email protected]>
>
>> Cocoa is not a single framework it has a lot of them, I think even more
>> than gtk+ and gnome have together. MS also has many technologies,
>> frameworks and solutions. So I'm thinking nothing is that bad with gnome,
>> but
>> maybe a good ide is needed
>> 27.02.2012 23:31 пользователь "Darton Williams" <[email protected]>
>> написал:
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Michele Alex D. De Pascalis <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Just look around: Apple and Microsofts have their own SDKs, APIs and
>> IDEs perfectly working with them. Compared to these, developing for GNOME
>> is way too hard and complicated. Maybe we have the fastest software, but we
>> have to write with Gtk, which is just a toolkit, without anything else
>> really integrating it. And C is over, so autogenerating a wrapper isn't a
>> good solution (talking about gtkmm). If a newbie gets in touch with Cocoa
>> and Xcode, he gets templates, he gets wide documentation, he connects
>> events with handlers by a drag'n'drop, cutting on the IDE's editor.
>> >> But it's not just about the IDE itself, it's also about paradigms:
>> Apple chose Model View Controller and Delegation, and everything is written
>> around these, and it takes seconds to add a View to your application.
>> >> I'm saying this because I've been learning Cocoa for eight months, and
>> I had learnt C++ before. Even now I know C++ is better in many ways, but
>> trying back Gtk made me understand it's not about the language, now. Those
>> who write iOS or Mac apps know what I mean with all this.
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>> > I fully agree with this statement - that GNOME desperately needs a
>> unified API/SDK. It would accelerate adoption of GNOME simply because
>> application development would become less of an arcane art. As a developer,
>> I feel that I could contribute to that effort.
>> >
>> > So how do we get started? :)
>> >
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