Re: [Vala] Why do regular reference types leak null?

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

On 08/16/2009 09:28 PM, Magentus wrote:
> Out of interest, has there been any discussion about actually making
> Vala a GCC front-end?  GCC already has the mechanism to do most of
> this...  I suppose it's useful being able to convert it to C, and then
> distribute that so it can be compiled on platforms without Vala
> compilers.  But it does mean the code needs to be analysed twice; once
> by Vala, and again by GCC.
>
>    

I see one big problem with that. As a meta-compiler, anyone with 
knowledge of C can quite easily discover and track down bugs in it. If 
it was a GCC frontend, one would need to understand the GCC and the 
assembly language, which is way more rare among GNOME interested folks I 
believe. That means it would restrict contributing to Vala to a very 
limited audience, which would be very bad.