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[Jakob Eriksson <jakob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-08-21 22:35, Kurt Smolderen wrote:

> look at the code. As Vala is currently missing a decent IDE (such as
> Eclipse,...) and debugging isn't as easy due to the fact the code is
> translated into C, its often very difficult to analyse the flow of a
> program. Available tests might help this initial contributors with


And when will it be "blessed" to create Elementary apps in another
language than Vala? If Elementary would "open up" to other languages,
we could REALLY see increased productivity and more contributors.
IMHO Objective C, C++ and maybe even Java via GCJ would be the obvious
candidates.

--jakob