Brian Duffy wrote: > If you really want to know if Vala can work effectively on Windows > then you better try installing Vala (and Gtk) on windows and give it > a whirl.
It might be easier to look for apps written in Vala with well-supported builds for Windows. For example there is a list of apps at the bottom of the page here to start with: http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Documentation For example ShotWell doesn't support Windows now, but according to this message, it used to support it but it was dropped for lack of interest (search down for "Windows"): http://blog.yorba.org/lucas/2011/01/shotwell-081-released.html Also, writing the base tools of a language (compiler/etc) can be the work of one or two people, but writing a good IDE is usually much more work and requires a team. I'm hacking with Eclipse JDT right now, and seeing the Eclipse source code I realise that the investment that went into that was incredible -- just so you can have quick fixes and easy refactoring. They attempted the impossible and achieved it, and now everyone takes it for granted. (My interest right now is writing an editor that works off the AST not the source code. This means that I could have the editor show any syntax I like, and still reformat it back to conventional syntax for saving (and with some further tweaking, minimise the diff). Java is a good start because Eclipse have already done a lot of the work for me, and because I'm going to have to be coding in Java soon for a contract anyway. One day I wonder whether it would be possible to specify a language that is saved as an AST dump, and which displays to each user according to their syntax preferences, e.g. Python-like for one person, C-braces for another, functional style for another. This would also make it easier for refactoring tools. Worth experimenting with.) Jim -- Jim Peters (_)/=\~/_(_) [email protected] (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) Uazú (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) http:// in Peru (_) ____ /=\ ____ ~/_ ____ (_) uazu.net _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
