Vala (programming language)

Vala is a new (as of 2007) programming language, targeting GNOME's gobject system.

Vala

Paradigm	structured, imperative, object-oriented, f
First appeared	2006
Website	vala.dev
Influenced by
C, C++, C#

It has a syntax based upon C#. However, unlike C#, it has no runtime system (Vala is compiled directly to C) and so imposes no additional overhead.

Code example

The "hello, world" program:

using GLib;

public class Sample {
        public void run () {
                stdout.printf ("Hello World\n");
        }

        static int main (string[] args) {
                var sample = new Sample ();
                sample.run ();
                return 0;
        }
}

External links

• The Vala Programming Language, on GNOME Live!