Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:08 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> As a consequence, GUILE is not only the language for writing
>> extensions, but it is the entire platform upon which LilyPond is built
>> internally too: almost every C++ data structure is manipulated and
>> passed on as a SCM variable as well, and there is little prospect of
>> ever being able to separate them.
>>
>> If I would re-do it, I would do so in a language where you can write
>> have the data be inside native classes, and automate generating
>> methods (setters, getters) and hooks (property callbacks), such that
>> the core program wouldn't need to be aware of the scripting language.
>
> You mean, use Goops?

It would have to be compiled too, for type checking.

It would have to be actively maintained too; this was another grave
error in choosing GUILE.

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