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Explicitly mention that Vala can be used to create cross-platform programs #152

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colinkiama opened this issue Jul 20, 2022 · 6 comments

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colinkiama commented Jul 20, 2022

It should also link to these installation docs with with platform specific instructions.

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Where can we mention this?

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colinkiama commented Jul 26, 2022

Somewhere on the home page.

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I think it should maybe give a list of non-GNOME, non-ElementaryOS applications that use Vala. And sadly, this list is a bit short, the only one I can come up is frida (https://frida.re): https://github.com/frida/frida-core

@colinkiama colinkiama changed the title Explicitly mention that the language can be used to create cross-platform programs Explicitly mention that Vala can be used to create cross-platform programs Aug 13, 2022
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That's a great idea. What exactly do you mean by "non-GNOME' though?

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I mean e.g. general purpose applications, that not only are written for GTK/GNOME/ElementaryOS. One thing I often hear about Vala is, that you can only write programs for those things in Vala, basically its only purpose being a language for GTK+friends.

If we are able to list e.g. some non-GNOME/eOS, maybe even non-Linux applications that use e.g. not GTK or not even a GUI, it would show that Vala is really a general purpose language. But sadly I can't think of any big, releveant programs written in Vala that are not from the GTK-ecosystem

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