Re: Why vala? Was - Re: ffalarms 0.2.3 Vala/libeflvala/Elementary rewrite

2009-06-30 Thread Ɓukasz Pankowski
Steven ** montg...@gmail.com writes: I've seen several developers talking about porting things to vala. I'm not really familiar with this language. What is the point? Why would you spend the effort rewriting an app that already works into another language when the result is identical to the

Re: Why vala? Was - Re: ffalarms 0.2.3 Vala/libeflvala/Elementary rewrite

2009-06-30 Thread Steven **
I actually work in C with all the crazy function pointers and what-not every day. So, that's sort of how my brain works these days. I looked at some Vala samples and was like Wait a minute, are these classes or something? I haven't seen stuff like this since college!. ;-) -Steven On Mon, Jun

Why vala? Was - Re: ffalarms 0.2.3 Vala/libeflvala/Elementary rewrite

2009-06-29 Thread Steven **
I've seen several developers talking about porting things to vala. I'm not really familiar with this language. What is the point? Why would you spend the effort rewriting an app that already works into another language when the result is identical to the original? Is vala really that much

Re: Why vala? Was - Re: ffalarms 0.2.3 Vala/libeflvala/Elementary rewrite

2009-06-29 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Just wondering if I should be paying more attention to this vala stuff... Yes, you should, because Vala is a groundbreaking new programming language that combines the abstraction of high level languages with the performance of low level languages. See also: