Why vala? Was - Re: ffalarms 0.2.3 Vala/libeflvala/Elementary rewrite

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

>Just wondering if I should be paying more attention to this vala stuff...

Yes, you should, because Vala is a groundbreaking new programming language 
that combines the abstraction of high level languages with the performance of 
low level languages.

See also:

http://blogs.gnome.org/lharris/2009/02/23/why-vala-is-the-answer-to-life-the-
universe-and-everything/

http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-vala.html

http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2007/12/30/first-encounter-with-
vala/

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2007/09/vala-high-level-programming-
with-less-fat.ars

Anf if you're still not convinced, read some C/GLib/Gobject source code and 
then some Vala source code. 

Cheers,

:M: