Re: [gnome-love] Getting started

[Javier Jardón <javierjc1982 gmail com>]

2009/8/1 Matthew J. Fisher <mfisher_ix maine rr com>:
> Hello,

Hello Matthew!

> I've been using the GNOME desktop in several different distros for the
> past few years, and have an interest in learning how to develop for the
> GNOME platform.

Great :)

> I have a small project in mind, but need some advice on choice of
> programming language.  I know C, C++, and C# but the tutorials I've
> discovered so far seem to be primarily in C.  Is C still the best
> language with which to start learning GNOME development?

You can take a look to Vala [1] language too. Is very similar to C#
but you don't need a special runtime environment.
You have a tutorial [2] and a lot of examples [3] in Gnome wiki.


> The project would be a GUI alternative to the existing Lisp script for
> gNewSense "kernel freedom verification":
>
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Kfv-script

Very interesting, inform us of your progress on you new project ;)

Regards,

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Vala
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial
[3] http://live.gnome.org/Vala#head-9c728d151a2a0483d4f3b5837e5b545df9d8499d
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