Vala could replace C ...

[Reiner Pope]

renoX wrote:
> Reiner Pope Wrote:
>> kris wrote:
>>> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/02/vala-high-level-programming-with-less-fat 
>>>
>>>
>>> "Vala is still a work in progress, but support for the language is 
>>> growing rapidly. Close GObject integration makes Vala an ideal choice 
>>> for GNOME development, and the requisite library support is steadily 
>>> falling into place. Vala's biggest deficiency right now is the lack of 
>>> documentation. In time, Vala could replace C as the principle language 
>>> of the GNOME platform."
>> Most of the listed features, D has too:
>> - Interfaces
>> - Properties
>> - Signals  (why is this a language feature?)
> 
> Maybe to have a better syntax? 
> 
>> - Foreach
>> - Lambda expressions
>> - Type inference for local variables
>> - Generics
>> - Non-null types
> 
> Are you sure that D has the 'non-null types' feature?
> What I understand by 'non-null types' is like in Nice:
> having a syntax to declare nullable types, and by default types are not nullable i.e
> Type foo = null; is an error (if possible a compile-time error).
> Type? foo = null; is ok.
> This means that when you have a function f(Type t) you don't need to check in f whether t is null or not, it's already done for you.
> 
> AFAIK D doesn't have this.

You should have read what you quoted afterwards  :-)

>> I'm not sure how type modules work, but I do know about non-null types, 
>> and they would sure be nice in D.
>>
>>
>>    -- Reiner
> 

D doesn't have it, but I think they would be nice.

    -- Reiner