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Its not too different from c#, and it's very popular for writing gtk applications.

• kitsunesoba 8y ago
  Even so, it’s going to scare off a lot of potential contributors long before they investigate the language deeply simply by having a name they don’t recognize. It effectively limits the contributor pool to those who’ve previously written GTK apps, which is relatively tiny compared to the number of devs coming from more mainstream backgrounds.
  • coleifer 8y ago
    Maybe. It didn't scare off me, though. It piqued my interest!
    • jenscow 8y ago
      Oh, me too... "Familiar to anyone who's seen C#, but maintains API/ABI compatibility with C"
  • Investogician 8y ago
    I think it actually has helped. The Elementary app store is filled with nice Elementary-specific apps. Their getting started docs are quite beginner-friendly https://elementary.io/docs/code/getting-started#getting-started https://elementary.io/docs/code/getting-started#getting-star...
  • BonesJustice 8y ago
    I was looking through some of their sources, and that was the first encounter I’d had with Vala. If anything, it makes me more interested in potentially contributing. Now, whether the tooling is up to snuff is another question. If it’s not, then the language choice could still end up being a turn-off, if not an immediate one.