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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by mohanmcgeek on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:06PM (#29930159)
Because this is written in Rust and given how hard it is to hire Rust engineers, this will be abandonware in no time.

Remember vala anyone?

Although I want this to succeed if it is infact more performant and smoother than GNOME.

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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by SkyMarshal on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:00AM (#29931086)
> given how hard it is to hire Rust engineers,

That's not given.

> Remember vala anyone?

Vala is nothing like Rust, doesn't solve the same problems, and is much more narrow in scope (Gnome development).

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AcldYn...

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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by mohanmcgeek on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:56AM (#29944287)
For the reasons I mentioned above, adoption of vala by projects in 2010 is exactly like adoption of Rust.

That Rust is much more capable doesn't matter.

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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by SkyMarshal on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:43AM (#29947808)
You didn’t give any reasons about adoption of Vala. You said it’s hard to hire Rust programmers, and then just “Remember Vala anyone?” without actually saying anything more about Vala.
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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by gurkendoktor on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:02AM (#29931720)
Well, what about Vala? Obviously C, Python, and especially JavaScript are infinitely more popular programming languages. Yet the number of developers building GTK apps with any of them seems to be in the same ballpark.
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