Vala compiles code down to blazingly fast, fully native binaries.
You're also able to reuse existing C Code in your Vala programs as well as generate C Code from Vala.
Vala is free and open-source software.
It has a great community that contributes to the compiler and develops lots of tooling..
Vala is intended to provide runtime access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings.
To use a library with Vala, all that needed is an API file (. vapi) containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax.
However, C++ libraries are not supported..
Vala is a programming language mainly targeted at GNOME developers.
Its syntax is inspired by C# (and thus, indirectly, by Java).
But unlike C# and Java, Vala does not attempt to provide memory safety: Vala is compiled to C, and the C code is compiled with GCC using typical compiler flags..
Vala is a programming language that combines the high-level build-time performance of scripting languages with the run-time performance of low-level programming languages..
