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Hello, World in GTK with Vala

by chauhankiran on 2/13/22, 8:04 AM with 9 comments

• by hactually on 2/13/22, 11:45 AM

  Love Gnome, love Gtk... But damn do I hate Vala. Esp that it compiles to C and you get to debug both

  I wish that JS/Go/C were where they ended up as the languages for the platform.

• by dylan-m on 2/13/22, 5:43 PM

  I like that this goes straight into more advanced topics after doing the basic “Hello world” thing. One suggestion: once you ended up with three copies of that label I was thinking that’s a good opportunity to do some property binding, which is an extremely useful feature.

• by sp1rit on 2/13/22, 12:54 PM

  > For the purpose of the demonstration, we're going to use Gtk.Grid to create a grid container widget.

  why exactly? a GtkBox is would do just fine, looks better and it's easier to handle programmatically than the grid.

• by GrumpyNl on 2/13/22, 11:45 AM

  Thats a lot of code to write "Hello world".