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wtd

Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:12 am


Vala

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Vala is a language designed to make application development easier for GNOME/GTK+ developers.  It is essentially C, with high-level concept support but without being D, Java, C# or C++.   ;-)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vala_Programming
http://live.gnome.org/Vala


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btiffin

Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:53 pm


RE:Vala

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I think you just stole a fair piece of my Saturday afternoon wtd.  ;)

I'm writing a GTK+ binding for OpenCOBOL ... now I have to go lookie see if Vala can accelerate that effort.

And initial lookies ... yes;  now I know you've stolen a fair piece of my afternoon.  Nice.  Thanks for the heads up.  :)

Edit;  SWEEET!   Object Oriented without all the linkage name mangling.  Woohoo.

$ valac --pkg gtk+-2.0 -c -o builder builder.vala
$ cobc -x `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0` valacall.cob builder.o  

Done and running an XML ui file GtkBuilder generated TreeView from OpenCOBOL.

Edit; Whoa!  webkit browser called from OpenCOBOL ... two minutes of work.

wtd; you da man!
Cheers