Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME
developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to
applications and libraries written in C.
valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files.
It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code. It's also planned
to generate GIDL files when gobject-introspection is ready.
The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system.
