On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:57:49 +0200 Jiří Zárevúcky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/6/27 Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>: > > > > What is the current state of interaction between Vala and Mono? I mean, > > would it be possible to take a useful Mono library, rewrite it in Vala, > > and make the Mono programs pretty much transparently use the rewrite > > instead of the original library? > > There are tools to automatically create a managed wrapper for > GObject-based library, so yes, it would be possible. Although I'm not > sure how eager would Mono programmers be to use such wrapped version. > Wrapped native code is generally slower and more difficult to work > with then a pure CIL implementation. The library in question would be > more likely to exist in two separately maintained versions. Bummer. Having two separate versions would pretty much defeat the purpose. > > Porting a whole application just for the sake of it is hardly a justifiable > > effort; it may make sense to do so if there are other benefits, like better > > performance or smaller memory footprint, which I believe Vala could give. > > Everything else is just propaganda. > > I somewhat agree with you, but such decisions must be left to the > application's developers themselves. Even though the software is free, > we must have some decency, don't we? This was implied; at the end of the day, it's the developer's call. -- Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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