Some 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 sta

Some 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.