Pidl - an IDL for GObject boilerplate and language bindings

[Christian Berentsen <christian berentsen tandberg com>]

https://launchpad.net/pidl

Pidl is an Interface Description Language for GObject C-code with
automatic language bindings.

The programmer mainly writes '.pidl' files and implementation in C. Much
GObject boilerplate is hidden.

Language bindings are automatically generated.
(Currently for Python, C++ and C#)

As we are developing a product relying heavily on GObject, we came to
the conclusion that the risk of having every developer handling
boilerplate code could become a big maintenance headache.

Pidl is still in its infancy and is being evolved on a day to day basis.
The system is developed in TDD fashion, with test coverage in Python.

Could this be interesting for anybody else writing GObject based
software?

Current feature summary:
Emits C++, Python and C# (and GObject front stubs in C)
Supports classes, interfaces, properties, methods, and signals.
Supports implementing interfaces in C++ and C# (not yet Python)
Enums
Errors/Exceptions on methods marked as throwing. (GError marshalled to
language exceptions, modelled after dbus-glib)
Weak references (Properties only)
Inheritance
and more.

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Jarl Christian Berentsen
Ole Andre Vadla Ravnaas
(Pidl core monkeys)