Re: [Vala] Vala for everyone

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 14:27 +0000, Denis Reichelt wrote:
> Hi all,  
>   
> I'm not a GNOME developer but I'm interrested in Vala because for me it would  
> be a perfect C frontend. C is virtually platform independent because C  
> compilers exist for nearly every processor / controller.  
> So my question is:  
> Why is Vala that hardly bound to the Gnome world and the gcc compiler?  
> Why simply transform Vala code to C and let the platform dependent C compiler  
> do all the machine code things?  
> I would like to use Vala with embedded devices, not using any linux OS or such.  
> Would that be possible, maybe with a reduced library set?  

There is the POSIX profile, but you lose those features provided through
GObject. The generated C should conform to C89.