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Vala

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Rich GTK Support

Vala developed by Gnome Foundation. See More

Top Con

Very few resources allocated to the language

Only a single person is working on Vala full time. Gnome Foundation isn't allocating sufficient resources to properly maintain Vala. See More

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Fast

Underneath there is C. It makes some stuff easier to write than it would be with plain C code. See More

Top Con

A very naïve approach to the real problem

Vala just adds more complexity to the game. No real benefits in using a 'programming language emulator' for UI code, you may think it adds to productivity but it's just a way to make the problem last longer, reinventing the wheel everytime and worse. See More

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Easy Syntax

Vala is syntactically similar to C# and includes several features such as: anonymous functions, signals, properties, generics, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, and foreach statements See More

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Very limited adoption

Vala isn't used in areas other than GTK development, and no major business has adopted the language. See More

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C compatible API (and ABI)

C programs can use libraries written in Vala, and vice versa. See More

Top Con

Not a general purpose language

Can't use Vala in multiple software development areas. See More

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Good documentation

There is Valadoc and most of the libraries have Devhelp packages. See More

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Very limited tooling

Though using Gnome Builder, you can debug it easily. See More

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Well-integrated with C language

Vala itself is compiled to C, therefore it can use the vast ecosystem of C language, with least effort. See More

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Heavy reliance on GObject

Heavy reliance on GObject types, although Vala can be used without GObject. (posix profile) See More

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Stable ABI

You can write a library with ABI stability. See More

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Not well documented

It already has tons of documentation, even a book about Vala.https://leanpub.com/vala https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Documentation See More

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A general purpose language

Vala is compiled to C and only requires GLib - or even nothing (posix profile) See More

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No stable version

No stable version of Vala released for over a decade so far. Means that Vala isn't production ready. See More

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