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What's the state of Vala in 2024?
by treyd 2y ago
What's the state of Vala in 2024?
- rbanffy 2y agoSeems to be still going. Doesn't seem to be very popular, which might turn to a competitive advantage for some.
- southwesterly 2y agoElementaryOS developers seem to use it.
- fweimer 2y agoSome widely-installed GNOME applications are written in it. The compiler (actually a transpiler to C) has some issues and couldn't really be adopted to emit standard C: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/-/blob/main/ccode/valaccodepragma.vala https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/-/blob/main/ccode/valacc... To me, what was surprising about Vala is that it has automated memory management, C#-like syntax, but does not really offer memory safety, even if you don't interface with obviously unsafe C code.