I've been watching the Vala project very closely for the past while. The goal is to make a nice high level language built on top of the existing GLib/GObject type system. The advantage is, vala code compiles down to standard C/GLib code, so it maintains the speed and interoperability of C without dealing with the suckiness of GObject copypasta. The issue in paradise? The only build system that remotely supports vala is autotools, which can go die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.
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