Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:49 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:22 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > A much better alternative to any VM out there is Vala which sports two
> > languages (Genie being a python/Delphi as well as Vala's c#/java
> > syntax)
> > and which gives C like performance and is moulded to fit gobject and
> > our
> > platform perfectly with better Dbus integration
> 
> Is there anything more complex than "Hello, World" written in Genie?

tracker-search-tool is written in genie :
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/tree/src/tracker-search-tool

Also puppy linux has replaced a lot of their pyhton apps with Genie apps


>   Or
> a language specification?  Anyone can knock up a python-like language
> but it's substantially harder to actually make a production quality
> language -- the fact that Vala's C#-style syntax is still missing a
> formal specification and is still evolving shows this quite well.

I believe syntax will be formalised very quickly as vala approaches
syntax freeze in 0.8 according to juerg

I was not intending to turn this into a language flame war just pointing
out that there is a another option for a VM especially for those that
dont want to pull in extra dependencies

jamie