Re: [Vala] Vala++

[Alessandro Pellizzari <alex amiran it>]

On 04/04/17 13:28, Al Thomas via vala-list wrote:

> > From: Alessandro Pellizzari <alex amiran it>

> You seem to over talking Rust and under talking Vala.

No, I don't. :)

I know all you have linked. I have been following this ml since 2008. I 
also know the article by esr and agree, in part, with him.

Rust is a hard beast to learn. It took me months to have a decent grasp 
of it, and I'm still missing many "rustic ways" of doing things, while 
in Vala I was productive in weeks.

But, on the other side: no memory leaks, no segmentation faults, no 
concurrency mess-ups (unless you try VERY hard).

I don't want to advocate rust (but try it. You will hate it. And then 
you'll love it :).

What I'm saying is exactly what you said: Rust has many more resources. 
It's growing much faster (it is not even 2 years old).
Inevitably, in a couple of years, it will be ahead of Vala even in 
Gtk/Gnome support, unless hundreds of developers adopt Vala now.

I am sorry about it because I really liked the idea behind Vala.
I am glad about it because it's a safer language.

Bye.