My personal experience with GObject has been a total pain, and I cannot believe that some people find fake-OO nice..

So far, I see two ways of developping classes on top of the GObject system :

• Directly writing the Classes and Interfaces. This is a pain, not only to write, but also to maintain. This involves writing tons of #directives that are mostly governed by conventions…. Forget about renaming any class, for sure…
• Using a higher-level language and using an intermediate tool (Gob, codegen) to generate the appropriate Code. First-time writing of the classes is easier, but then development becomes a nightmare and debugging is hell…

So, congrats to those guys who enjoy GObject, since they are those who allow us to write OO applications on top of their libraries using real high level languages, such as Java and C#.