"...I found out when I made Qt's first font system. The X API sucks big time and made it a lot worse. All you could ask for was a list of strings with a hacky encoding of font types (one for each and every font instance) and you really couldn't trust that encoding was always kosher. Messy heuristics was the only option. Also you had to tell X the ( Read more... )

Помнится, один товарищ взялся написать наследника APT - APT2 на VALA, Glib, GObject + хранилище SQLite. Обещал прибавку в скорости и всё такое. А ведь есть aptitude на C++

Теперь же от него новость: APT2 - this time in C
GObject'ы c Glib пока остались, заместо SQLite уже GVariant.

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Проникся песней Write in CПросто Vala ( Read more... )