Re: [Vala] Vala for everyone

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:40 +0100, Jens Georg wrote:
> 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.

There's also Dova, which is an alternative object system, not tied to
GNOME.

        Xav