[RFC wayland] move away from C

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 09:41:51 -0500 Derek Foreman <derekf at osg.samsung.com> said:

> On 01/04/17 09:24 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:03:21 +0100 Auke Booij <auke at tulcod.com> said:
> >
> >> The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was
> >> always considered a proof of concept, as it was clear to everyone
> >> involved that any serious programming lanugage should have a garbage
> >> collector. Indeed, Dennis Ritchie is widely known to have said:
> >>
> >> "What I would really like is to extend this prototype into a garbage
> >> collected, multi-paradigm, modern programming language, supported by a
> >> major player in the industry."
> >>
> >> Of course, the language thus envisioned would later be implemented as
> >> C pound (not to be confused with the cloud programming language #C).
> >>
> >> Let's catch up to 1990 and translate major parts of wayland to the
> >> language of the people - haskell.
> >
> > ummm... how about no?
> 
> Don't read the internets on April 1st.

oh good. point. i had no idea what date it was :)

> Thanks,
> Derek
> 
> >
> >> Some early code can be found here:
> >> https://github.com/abooij/sudbury
> >> Existing wayland clients run without recompilation. Compositors are
> >> not supported yet.
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> >
> >
> 


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