Description:

Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern
programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any
additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI
compared to applications and libraries written in C.

valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala
source code. It's also planned to generate GIDL files when
gobject-introspection is ready.

The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the
GObject type system.