Vala is a programming language that aims to bring modern programming language
features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and
without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based
libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. Each to be used library requires a Vala
API file at compile-time, containing the class and method declarations in Vala
syntax. Vala currently comes with experimental bindings for GLib and GTK+. It's planned to
provide generated bindings for the full GNOME Platform at a later stage.

• Ildar Mulyukov
• Alexander Bokovoy

• libvala-devel
• vala
• vala-doc
• vala-tools