maemo.org - Talk
Page 2 of 2 1 2
Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page

maemo.org - Talk (https://talk.maemo.org/index.php)
-   Applications (https://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=41)
-   -   mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll] (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=17984)

Jaffa 2008-03-17 13:28
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by luca (Post 156321)
Freepascal fits that bill too. (edit: besides, I doubt you could do transcoding on the nslu2)
But... it's *Pascal* FFS.

Does it have garbage collection? Threading is something "to be improved in the next version", which is worrying.

D and Vala both look interesting, and up to the challenge. With Vala slightly ahead of D, IMHO.

TA-t3 2008-03-17 14:36
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
The documentation for Vala took a sudden giant leap a short while ago, there's about 56MB of docu (mostly taken by the bindings documentation) on http://www.vala-project.org/doc/
I think it's a good choice for writing gtk/cairo/hildon programs. For general programming D looks quite nice.

luca 2008-03-17 16:28
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaffa (Post 156338)
But... it's *Pascal* FFS.
It's object pascal, please
Quote:
Does it have garbage collection?
No, you have to take care of freeing objects yourself.
OTOH it has a native string type that you don't have to allocate/deallocate.

Quote:
Threading is something "to be improved in the next version", which is worrying.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, and I use threading all the time.

Quote:
D and Vala both look interesting, and up to the challenge. With Vala slightly ahead of D, IMHO.
I don't really know them, but they both seem to be too much like C to be any good FFS ;)
(maybe they're better, but I can usually recompile the whole lazarus ide in the time that gcc compiles "hello world", and seeing that vala translates to C which is then compiled to native code....maybe you enjoy watching paint dry :D)

Jaffa 2008-03-17 17:39
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Paint drying's often more entertaining than what's on TV at the moment!

I'll have a closer look at FreePascal, but've had quite a bit of fun with Delphi recently.

luca 2008-03-17 19:01
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaffa (Post 156437)
Paint drying's often more entertaining than what's on TV at the moment!
sad but true, but keep in mind that what you have over there (at least bbc4 had reruns of "the prisoner" and "the avengers") is way better than what we have over here (though "il commissario montalbano" is pretty good, but that's all).
At least with my dish I can choose the least of many evils ;)

cLin 2008-03-18 00:49
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
nm: ignore post

Jaffa 2008-03-18 12:58
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cLin (Post 156625)
nm: ignore post
Hmm, and now I'll never know ;-)

To clarify, my comment about "fun with Delphi" should have additional sarcasm tags, or at least sarcastic quotes around 'fun'.

Bundyo 2008-03-18 13:36
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Yeah, we already got that ;)

Jaffa 2008-03-18 13:47
Re: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 156794)
Yeah, we already got that ;)
Just checking, I'd hate to be taken as a Delphi supporter ;-)


All times are GMT. The time now is 04:02.
Page 2 of 2 1 2
Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page

vBulletin® Version 3.8.8