@glitchypixel I'm very interested to see where you go with this. I got really excited about VALA about ~15 years ago, and the unportability of glib to even things like wasm was one of the reasons I eventually fell off of it. I'd been hoping someone might come along and produce a middle ground between gobject and glib. It seems like that never shaked out, but patching over the deficits with a few choice libraries might actually work out really well.
for math, I think your best bet would be to write vala bindings for the libc stuff you need.
containers is probably the trickiest one. there's probably a good C library I don't know about. otherwise you could probably lift implementations from https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL and wrap them for VALA
@evan The second thing I don't like about the reply is "just". It reduces every thing to one thing - "just" that. The world tends to look cartoonish when people use that word. If you want to force your opinion on someone, "just" makes sense. If your goal is to learn and get more wise, "just" gets in the way.
@evan I dislike this genre of questions too. I think the right category for it is a leading question. Which means that it is actually not a question, but an opinion packaged as if it was a question. Typically, people who pose questions like that are not really interested in the answer. So people like me, who live by the value that people who ask me something, all things being equal, I owe them an answer - we end up wasting a lot of time.
A lovely tribute from Steve Parker. When a tree in his yard died, Parker cut slices from the trunk that he then carved like vinyl. The oak records play bird song. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/steve-parker-funeral-for-a-tree-sound-sculpture/#art #nature
Not many #flowers left:a few things going in the #gardens scattered #weeds + very few native wildflowers. #Pollinators winding down too, but patrolling the remaining flowers shows me a few still at work. This tiny #bee (probably Sweat Bee of some sort) was fully immersed in a Sonchus/Sow Thistle flower head in a little patch I leave on purpose near the house. They're mostly done flowering too, but a few heads left #nature #insects #Alberta #Autumn