On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:40 +0100, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 14:27 +0000, Denis Reichelt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm not a GNOME developer but I'm interrested in Vala because for me it
> > would
> > be a perfect C frontend. C is virtually platform independent because C
> > compilers exist for nearly every processor / controller.
> > So my question is:
> > Why is Vala that hardly bound to the Gnome world and the gcc compiler?
> > Why simply transform Vala code to C and let the platform dependent C
> > compiler
> > do all the machine code things?
> > I would like to use Vala with embedded devices, not using any linux OS or
> > such.
> > Would that be possible, maybe with a reduced library set?
>
> There is the POSIX profile, but you lose those features provided through
> GObject. The generated C should conform to C89.
There's also Dova, which is an alternative object system, not tied to
GNOME.
Xav
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