Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>
> Sent: Friday, 9 September 2016, 22:50
> Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

> I was hoping to see at least one answer to this, but now I'm really
> scared. I really love Vala, so the perspective of missing it is really
> horrible :(


The email was only sent yesterday and in my view requires a considered response.
So please hold back from the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

My own view is Vala will trundle along as it has done for a while now. The question
is really whether development will pick up pace. I was going to respond with my own
view. That is based on a paraphrase of an old slogan "it's not what your community
can do for you, but what you can do for your community" and my own TODO list for Vala.
There is a stable release for Vala about to be released in the coming weeks as the
main releases coincide with GNOME release. So for my own part I wanted to focus on
getting a few patches in before then. Then I was going to put forward my own ideas,
but I am not a Vala developer.


Al