Easy GNOME Development with the Vala Programming Language - I've generally not had a reason to work with the GObject type system despite appreciating its fruits through GNOME for years. Then the other day I ran across a language called Vala which intrigued me enough to start hacking away. Vala's claim to fame is that it simplifies GObject development by exposing it in a C#/Java like language. Unlike C# and Java Vala is translated to C and then compiled to a native binary. Presumably this leads to performant execution and a tight memory footprint compared to CLI and Java bytecode. The GObject type system and Vala are new to me so I'm in no position to kick knowledge, but I'll share some of what I've written early in my learning process. Example 1 Hello World: using GLib; public class HelloWorld...
