Vala is a relatively new object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Vala is syntactically similar to C# and includes useful ...

GNOME itself is written in C, but many of the higher-level libraries that make up the GNOME platform (such as GTK+ and Pango) make heavy use of the GLib and GObject frameworks, which implement a ...

GNOME itself is written in C, but many of the higher-level libraries that make up the GNOME platform (such as GTK+ and Pango) make heavy use of the GLib and GObject frameworks, which implement a ...

Vala is a bit of a lost opportunity. It could have been a great step forward: type inference, non-intrusive static typing, ideas from functional languages, strong emphasis on safe programming ...