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Eiffel as a Gnome Development Language ?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-would-take-some-work dept.

Thomas Delaet writes " This article is a short evaluation of Eiffel as a language for developing the core gnome desktop platform. Last month, there has been a heavy debate about a successor for C/C++ as the language of choice for developing the core gnome desktop components in. The debate has mostly focussed around C#/Mono and Java. This article tries to summarize the different requirements for a gnome development language and shows how Eiffel fits in these criteria."

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  1. Eiffel Wrappger Generator by WeiszNet · · Score: 1, Redundant
    One thing the article does not mention is that there is even an Eiffel Wrapper Generator. A tool which autmates much of the task when writing Eiffel bindings for C libraries.

    If Eiffel were indeed to be used for a project such as Gnome, such a tool could greatly reduce the amount of work needed to access all of the existing Gnome libraries, which are AFAIK all in written in C.

    EWG even comes with GTK 2.x bindings contained as an example.

    PS: The above is a shameless plug, I am the main developer of EWG (;