[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

[Thrawn]

Hi, folks.

I've been out of the loop for a while, but have just caught up with this thread and the one about Vala. Just wanted to add $0.02:

- I'm not really a C programmer (Java background), so would welcome non-C opportunities for plugin writing. Although I actually do like Lua scripting.
- Vala looks promising because it generates C code. This sounds a bit like eg CoffeeScript compiling to JavaScript. If it generates similar (or better?) machine code, and is easier for humans, sounds good. Given my background, I would certainly find it easier to contribute to Vala code than to C code. But I'm not expert in the dependency issues.
- Scintilla may be ugly compared to GtkSourceView, but my experience of their respective editors (eg Notepad++) is that it provides more features - and worthwhile ones. Even code folding is a plugin in Gedit. And I love rectangular selection. So I don't like the idea of swapping to GtkSourceView.

Thrawn

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 12:54 PM AEDT Lex Trotman wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Just a note I am still summarising the thread, but "real life" is getting
>in the way.  Real soon now (hopefully).
>
>Cheers
>Lex