More about Unions in Vala
In a previous post I speculated about adding tagged unions to Vala. Let’s do that again.
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Unions in Vala
I’ve started to use Kotlin professionally, and keeping an eye on Rust. Both offer a lot of niceties that I wish we could adapt for Vala, but there’s one that...
Tip: Emitting the notify signal in Vala
I needed a way to emit the notify signal of one of my objects from another place, and Vala didn’t show me a straightforward way to do it. If you need it for ...
Abandoned Vala Projects
There was a time when Vala was really popular, and a plethora of Vala apps spawned. A lot of them are dead right now, so since i don’t have time to revive an...
On Vala and Composite Templates
If you want to use the GTK+ composite templates in Vala, please remember: you have to use a GResource. The syntax is pretty simple, here’s an example:
Slice of life
Working Canon PIXMA G3010/G3110 @ macOS
The only way to make this work is by using it vía network, forget about USB. Also, it only works as a printer, not as a scanner, blame Canon for not even imp...
Replay Edits
Being in the zone is amazing: your productivity skyrockets and the code just flows. Then somebody talks to you, the boss starts to scream discuss things on t...
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More about Unions in Vala
In a previous post I speculated about adding tagged unions to Vala. Let’s do that again.
Converting Array fields from PostgreSQL in jOOQ
There’s currently a “bug” (not really a bug, but it works for me in MySQL) that prevents jOOQ from reusing a forcedType when it appears as an array instead o...