Disclaimer: I know little to nothing about Vala.
I like how lean Geany is. From the discussion, it sounds like Vala does its own memory management. Currently geany only uses between 9 and 13 MB of memory on my box. Would Vala inadvertantly make geany use more memory? I don't want to use much more of my GBs of memory ;-)
Changing languages almost always adds complexity and my humble opinion is that it should be avoided, but I also don't know enough about vala to say how easy it would be to include it in development.
Thanks,
Steve
On 11/10/2013 12:22 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 13-11-10 02:00 AM, Pavel Roschin wrote:
Maybe, rewriting some parts of boating complicated leaky code (e.g. build.c:) isn't bad idea and suitable in this situation. You don't need much bindings for editor and Vala shouldn't be a pain. But AFAIK Geany don't use GObject and writing on Vala may cause deep refactoring that will take your time. Many things in Geany could be rewritten, simplified and improved and it's definitely going to be refactoring while using Vala.
To improve maintainability pure C code could be pre-generated before release for faster and easier build without vala.
Yep, this is the default for the Autotools built-in support as well, so no extra work to do it.
From the other side you could scare good C programmers...
True, but I suspect good C programmers will have little trouble with a simple language like Vala.
About RHEL: defenitely can say that Vala 0.20 works. And some things could be easily compiled.
Cool, good to know.
Cheers, Matthew Brush
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