Re: [Vala] Vapigen errors?

[Robert Palmqvist <robert palmqvist home se>]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey vanille-media de> wrote:

On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:06:59 Robert Palmqvist wrote:
> Hi everyone, this is my first post to this mailing list so let me take the
> opportunity to thank you all for a new and existing language

Guess you meant "exciting" here ;)

Exactly, thanks for spotting it :)
 

> (compared to

> some other bloated hogs that never managed to catch my attention even
> though the rest of the world seems to find it best things since sliced
> bread)!

Now you made me curious... which ones?

I really don't want to point fingers or start a "my language is better than yours" type of flame war but you asked for it so... My main concerns are Java and C#. It's not as much the languages (even though I personally find Java too verbose) but the imposed overhead by the VM and the cumbersome frameworks and tool-chains. I have for long waited for some new compiled languages in the spirit of Python (witch I happen to love even though it has a VM and lack the performance of C/C++) making me a more productive developer without having to sacrify simplicity and performace. That's why I find Vala and Genie so very existing to me!