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Easy GNOME Development with the Vala Programming Language (Thursday, July 16, 2009) - 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