Blog: 'Vale Vala', a fond farewell #230
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| The problems I ran into fall into two main categories: | ||
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| + Language problems. These could be fixed with a new profile, i.e. without breaking backwards compatibility. | ||
| + API problems. These are problems inherited from GLib. Fixing them in GLib is probably a whole other discussion (why was there never a GLib 3?), but just as [libgee](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgee) provides better containers for Vala than GLib, a Vala-specific library could fix the problems with the I/O APIs of GLib. |
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there are reasons for no glib 3, mostly it would require the entire world to port to a new base library, and all at the same time, because in C there is only one symbol namespace. So this makes it sadly basically impossible.
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Here's a draft of the blog post I promised back in September!