Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/07/14:36:50
Le dimanche 06 septembre 2015 Ã 10:39 +0300, Vladimir Zhbanov
(vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] a écrit :
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 11:35:49PM +0000, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> ...
> > You have my agreement until you get to scheme. Irrespective of
> > technical attracting new developers is harder when you are using a
> > language that is itself falling in popularity. It is just another
> > barrier to entry for new contributors. Most people already know C
> > almost no one comes to this project already knowing scheme.
> Some fifteen years ago, in my DOS/Windows life, nobody around me
> programmed in C. What I saw were Pascal/Delphy, various Basic's and
> Assemblers. After moving on Linux, I found C is everywhere, beginning
> from kernel. Again, around me Unix/Linux is a marginal stuff.
> >
> > Even John Dotty seemed to agree that we need an alternative to scheme.
> Yes, yes, I could even agree ;) But not two parallel versions with new
> dependencies in one repository. How to support them? How to support
> cross-compiling in this case? There is another way. Let's make bindings
> for various languages since gobject model allows this. Let's introduce
> plugins/modules, and we already have modules in scheme.
>
I would support such proposal, i.e. to have add an alternative to scheme
while supporting it. And providing bindings is a fair approach. This is
one of the strength of popular projects such as gnome, kde, etc.
Reading all the thread I was not able to see whether someone discussed
on the available libraries. For example languages like perl or python
propose a _lot_ of functionalities (numerical computing, web access,
etc.). Could this be considered in the choice of any other new
language ?
Arnaud.
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