Re: [Vala] Creating executables without glib/gobject

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 17:46 +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> I am very interested in what you have done, with your "Multiboot"
> code. I'm wondering how far this can be pushed. Is it feasible to code
> in a subset of Vala/Genie such that Glib/Gobject is not required, only
> the C library, so the executable could be compiled statically with
> dietlibc?
>
> [...]
>
> I'm wondering though, would I quickly run into trouble if I started to
> write anything more than the most elementary Vala/Genie program?

You'll hit limits quite soon if you want to use more Vala features.
Various users seem to be interested in using Vala also for non-GLib
based applications. I wouldn't be opposed to supporting, for example, a
POSIX backend where GLib would not be mandatory. However, this is not
something I will focus on for the next few months. Requiring GLib is not
an issue for most users, and there is still some work left to do before
we can consider a stable Vala release.

Jürg