Hello PCMan,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:00:59PM +0800, PCMan wrote:
> The second issue is the use of C++ in LXDE. Currently we mainly use C and in
> the future there might be vala.

Sorry I'm late to comment but want to name another possibility
(possibly useful in the future if not now).

Did you take a look at Go? I feel it addresses many of your concerns
about the efficiency of both the development and of the code.

It looks like it can interface with C libraries (even though not all compilers
allow this yet).

> Doing programming in pure C is quite inefficient and error-prone on memory
> management sometimes.

Agreed.

> In C++, things can be better encapsulated if it's used carefully.

I am not fond of C++ myself but it can be a matter of taste.

> So actually I'm considering the possibility of using C++ in PCManFM.

Having a dependency on C++ runtime may make use of FLTK attractive, what do
you think?

Thanks for your work!

Regards,
Rune


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