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Guido GüntherIf you ever wanted to write a <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/QuickSetting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuickSetting</a> or <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/LockScreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LockScreen</a> plugin for <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phosh</a> but didn't fancy <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GObject</a> C: Here's an example in <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/vala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vala</a> : <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1727" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1727</a><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/ValaLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ValaLanguage</a>

Johannes BrakensiekWhat kind of worries me is the observation that many <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GObject</a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNOME</a> projects are in a somewhat abondoned state since the overwhelming use of mobile apps and web services around 2012 to 2014. There are some great exemptions like the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> support by <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RedHat</a> and all the tools by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@linuxmint" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linuxmint</a>.Same is to apply to the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ObjC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ObjC</a> ecosystem which has seen few new projects since 2015 or so.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystem</a>

Johannes BrakensiekSo the conclusion is: If I want to improve what I'm using, I need to get my hands dirty and learn to write and fix that kind of software written in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GObject</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C</a>.I'm happy there is <a href="https://ap.nil.im/users/objfw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@objfw</a> as well which makes facing C less of a pain.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ObjGTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ObjGTK</a> probably will never be "finished", but it already helps using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GTK</a> without me needing to learn <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rust</a>, which I won't be able to achieve in my spare hours.

Johannes BrakensiekIt's not that I'm a great fan of the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GObject</a> type system and its way to build object-oriented code in C. I know some of the maintainers aren't as well, which I don't consider a surprise given the age and origin of that GObject ecosystem. So I absolutely understand <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Canonical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canonical</a> considered switching to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Qt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Qt</a> for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Unity8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unity8</a>, now <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Lomiri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lomiri</a>.But that's only one part of the story. The other part is I'm now using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GTK</a> based desktop environments almost full time (only some occasions I turn on my old Mac).

Emmanuele BassiI have not blogged or talked about the follow-up work to my "GType Next" blog post that I've been doing in my spare time, mainly because it is happening *in my spare time*, and I don't want to give false impressions to people; the other reason is that the time consuming bit is not writing a bunch of code, but it's planning ahead, because the goal is to avoid breaking stuff at all costs…<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/glib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glib</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gobject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gobject</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gtk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gtk</a>

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