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| 144 | +<h2 id="what-is-vala">What is Vala?<a class="zola-anchor" href="#what-is-vala" aria-label="Anchor link for: what-is-vala">#</a> |
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| 146 | +<p>Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject type system.</p> |
| 147 | +<p>Vala supports modern language features such as:</p> |
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| 149 | +<li>Interfaces</li> |
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| 165 | +<p>With Vala, you can get up and running quickly, thanks to convenient features like lambda expressions, exception handling, interfaces and generics.</p> |
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| 168 | +<p>Vala code compiles down to fully native binaries.</p> |
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| 171 | +<p>Vala helps you write type-safe code without the verbosity, thanks to type inference.</p> |
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| 174 | +<p>Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME Platform.</p> |
| 175 | +<p>Vala can also be used to create C libraries too.</p> |
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| 178 | +<p>The syntax of Vala is inspired by C# and Java, so if you have used either of those, you'll seamlessly adapt to writing Vala code.</p> |
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