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While browsing and looking for news in the open source world, I came to find about VALA. A ‘new’ programming language created to design and implement applications for GNOME. VALA has built-in features GObject, GLib,… VALA is translated into C code and apparently it is very efficient C code (benchmarks) So I wanted to dive into VALA and find out more about it…Documentation and blog posts about VALA are rare, except for the official language description page, and even though the people seems to be very active on the project (Version 0.8.0 released in March 2010) the information on it is limited. The standard documentation is rather good online and on the site of VALA may information can be found, however as soon as something goes wrong no information is available. So I want to describe here my experience setting up the environment to compile and run my first VALA program. Continue reading →