Re: [Vala] POSIX and Dova profiles

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 08:44 +0800, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote:
> I'm not sure what gaps in gobject that
> Dova is supposed to fill in. But is it
> possible to improve gobject to incorporate
> those features? Perhaps the vala team
> can make suggestion to the glib team.

This is certainly a valid question. However, it's more about different
approaches and concepts than about missing features. There will be
differences in memory management (simpler and less frequent use of
reference counting, stack-allocated objects), much simpler object
construction, fibers (multiple stacks) instead of async callbacks, and
more.

Most of these differences cannot be integrated into GObject for
compatibility reasons and thus, such experiments have to be carried out
in separate projects.

Regards,
Jürg