On 2013-08-21 22:59, A. "Xylon" V. wrote: > The thing about vala is that its simple enough to learn, but is still very > powerful and is extremely fast. The best thing is that it was made for Gtk, > which is perfect for elementary. > > More languages would mean that we wouldn't have unity across the > applications - I do however, think that this would attract developers, > especially since vala does not have very good tutorials, or books.
That is an understatement. Not having support for other languages is sort of insane. Scenario: I am a developer. I develop an application for Windows and, against commercial reason, make a Linux version of it too. It's coded in a mix of C++ and Python. I think Elementary is just fantastic, so just out of love I want to make my Linux app an Elementary version. I read the HIG and love it. Then I go to http://elementaryos.org/docs/code on the FIRST page I read: "If you're not familiar with Vala, we highly encourage you to brush up on it before coming here." Sorry say what? No, not going to happen. I can't redo my app in Vala, even if I wanted to, because that means I can't run it on Windows. (Or OSX, or iOS.) The dev page should read something like "for Elementary core apps we use Vala as a programming language. If you want to create your own Elementary apps, we encourage you to try out Vala, which is a fantastic language. If you want to use another language, that's fine too. Here are example Hello World Elementary apps written in C++, Objective C, Python and Ruby." --jakob -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
