Vala's Jürg Billeter on GNOME's Newest Development Platform

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"The GNOME project has a new tool coming into its own that enables developers to produce GObject libraries using the high-level Vala, as if they had used C. Blue GNU got Jürg Billeter to discuss the up and coming Vala platform.

"If you want to develop GNOME applications using a high-level language, but can't or won't use C3 or Java, then you can look forward to GNOME's Vala development platform. Vala offers the advantages of C3 and Java, but with improved performance, low memory requirements, and looks as if you had developed your GObject library in C..."

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