[Geany-Devel] Let's use Vala

[Steven Blatnick]

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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