On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:24:30 +0100, Tomasz Sterna wrote: > >Hello. > >May I ask what is with all the push for C# apps in GNOME? > >The main beauty of GNOME is that it is slick and unbloated. >Do we really need to throw a virtual machine in it? > >If we really want to develop code in object oriented language, with all >the fancy syntactic sugar, garbage collection etc. >can't we just use D to achieve it? http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ > >It has all the cool features of modern languages (like C# or Java): >C like syntax, OOP, nice templating, closures, garbage collected memory >management, dynamic and hashed arrays, real strings, inline assembly, >exceptions, unit tests, direct interface to C, unicode support ... and >many, many more, >... >with the advantage of producing real ELF objects, that can be linked >with any other objects .archives or .so dynamic libraries (using >standard GCC linker) to produce little, cute binaries that can be run on >REAL hardware, without the need of virtual machine. Yes, D sounds like a cool language. Does it have GTK+ bindings? If you like it, why not write a "killer app" in it and unleash it on the GNOME community? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org Jabber: magnus therning gmail com http://therning.org/magnus
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