On 04/04/2017 12:25 PM, Daniel Brendle wrote: > On 04/04/2017 11:47 AM, Mohan R wrote: >> A request to gnome+rust language developers, Please keep dbus and glade >> integration as easy as Vala. I enjoy writing GUI and dbus apps with Vala. >> It's just awesome integration which I don't see in other language bindings.
> I second this. > > As a matter of fact there are many languages you can use gobject in. But > it doesn't necessarily feel right because you're supposed to follow the > patterns of the language (and naturally also want to do so) but you have > to follow GLibs pattern. About ten years earlier i started programming > against Gtk in python which was one of the more convenient ways to do so > at the time (before i tried coding Gtk in perl and C). Oh boy. It was > such a hazzle until I figured out which of the mechanics belonged to > python and wich ones belonged to glib and even that there is a > difference between python threads and glib threads. Each language brings > their own means (stdlib) of interfacing with system functionality and > GLib brings it's own. This will allways be confusing in any language > that does not follow the same principles as Vala and Genie. I've read > that you can use Rust without a standard library. Maybe this will > actually make it suitable for GObject code. I know i repeat myself, but > i am stoked to see the results. I feel a bit weird discussing this stuff on the Vala-list, but since that is where the communication is happening… We did discuss resource embedding and "attributes" which I think is the major value being referred to. Since the GObject integration (both consuming and exporting C ABI) uses rust compiler plugins, we can do the same to enable C♯/Vala style [foo] attributes. These are much easier to implement in Rust plugins than writing a new language/compiler. It's likely we'll want to find a way to integrate rust embedded files with GResources. I believe some of the wip prototype code does get/set/construct just like Vala. We can create pretty much any syntax we want (within reason). Of course, we only had a 3 day hackfest, so there is still plenty of work to do. I assume we'll have a large group working on things at GUADEC¹ this year, so if that interests you, consider going. -- Christian ¹ https://2017.guadec.org/ _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
