This language, IMHO, is what go-lang should have been! Vala provides enough syntactic sugar to prevent buffer overflow and yet its performance is comparable to

This language, IMHO, is what go-lang should have been! Vala provides enough syntactic sugar to prevent buffer overflow and yet its performance is comparable to C, because it generates C code. For me, who was Java educated, Vala is strikingly familiar and easy to learn.