[Geany-Devel] Let's use Vala

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-11-11 05:37 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Am 10.11.2013 21:04, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>>
>> Maybe it's something specific to that Gist, so I re-pasted it in a new
>> one:
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>> https://gist.github.com/codebrainz/7403171
>>
>
>
> Impressive. Unfortunately only a tiny fraction of Geany's code can be
> vala'fied like this, right?
>

So trivially, yes. There's a few other GObjects that would be nearly as 
easy (but frankly are some Geany's nicest code already :), but the rest 
of the code would actually require writing real logic and stuff into 
Vala. Although what I was driving at in general wasn't just "porting" 
Geany's code 1:1 into Vala but re-factoring/re-writing/re-organizing, 
and using Vala to do it (same as I've talked about before WRT GObject on 
the list/IRC), so it's not really super important how much code can be 
directly 1:1 ported or vala-fied like that, I just wanted to give a 
little taste of the LOC/complexity reductions we could expect with Vala :)

Cheers,
Matthew Brush