Valadoc.org Rewrite and More! in Valum
The rewrite of valadoc.org in Vala using Valum has been completed and should be deployed eventually be elementary OS team (see pull #40). There’s a couple of interesting stuff there too:
- experimental search API using JSON via the
/searchendpoint - GLruCache now has Vala bindings and an improved API
- an eventual GMysql wrapper around the C client API if extracting the classes I wrote is worth it
In the meantime, you can test it at valadoc2.elementary.io and report any regression on the pull-request.
Valum 0.3 has been patched and improved while I have been working on the 0.4 feature set. There’s a work-in-progress WebSocket middleware, VSGI 1.0 and support for PyGObject planned.
If everything goes as planned, I should finish the AJP backend and maybe consider Lwan.
On the top, there’s Windows support coming, although the most difficult part is to test it. I might need some help there to setup AppVeyor CI.
I’m aware of the harsh discussions about the state of Vala and whether or not it will just end into an abysmal void. I would advocate inertia here: the current state of the language still make it an excelllent candidate for writing GNOME-related software and this is not expected to change.