Re: understanding guile-gi

[Luis Felipe]

Hi

On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 1:37 PM, Zelphir Kaltstahl 
<zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> wrote:

> guile-gi – I think this stands for "Guile Gnome(?) Introspection"?

It's GObject Introspection: https://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Many libraries become available through GI, not only GTK.

> And finally: Is my expectation correct, that I will be able to make GTK 
> applications using Guile, if I learn to use guile-gi?

Yes.

For what it's worth I did an attempt to get a minimal GTK app in Python and 
Guile running (https://gitlab.com/luis-felipe/geteka).

>From that exercise, though, I had to choose Python for my current desktop app 
>project, because I found it easier to make progress. But I'd like to try again 
>with Guile knowing what I've learned with Python.

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