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GNOME<p>🔧 "Bridging type systems"<br>with Sergey Bugaev at <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GUADEC2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GUADEC2025</span></a><br>📅 25 July 🕒 09:00 CEST 📍 Brescia</p><p>💡 Sergey introduces peel, a fresh take on C++ bindings for GObject: zero overhead, full API coverage, deep type support.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://events.gnome.org/event/259/contributions/1225/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">events.gnome.org/event/259/con</span><span class="invisible">tributions/1225/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/CPlusPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPlusPlus</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GObject</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Bindings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bindings</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a></p>
Guido Günther<p>If you ever wanted to write a <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/QuickSetting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuickSetting</span></a> or <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/LockScreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LockScreen</span></a> plugin for <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phosh</span></a> but didn't fancy <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GObject</span></a> C: Here's an example in <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/vala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vala</span></a> : <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1727" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p</span><span class="invisible">hosh/-/merge_requests/1727</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/ValaLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ValaLanguage</span></a></p>
Johannes Brakensiek<p>What kind of worries me is the observation that many <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GObject</span></a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> support by <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedHat</span></a> and all the tools by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@linuxmint" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxmint</span></a></span>.</p><p>Same is to apply to the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ObjC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObjC</span></a> ecosystem which has seen few new projects since 2015 or so.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a></p>
Johannes Brakensiek<p>So 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" target="_blank">#<span>GObject</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a>.</p><p>I'm happy there is <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ap.nil.im/users/objfw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>objfw</span></a></span> as well which makes facing C less of a pain.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ObjGTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObjGTK</span></a> probably will never be "finished", but it already helps using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a> without me needing to learn <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a>, which I won't be able to achieve in my spare hours.</p>
Johannes Brakensiek<p>It's not that I'm a great fan of the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GObject</span></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" target="_blank">#<span>Canonical</span></a> considered switching to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Qt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Qt</span></a> for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Unity8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unity8</span></a>, now <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Lomiri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lomiri</span></a>.</p><p>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" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a> based desktop environments almost full time (only some occasions I turn on my old Mac).</p>
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