[iamsahebgiri]

Where does language like Vala stand? Is it worth checking out?

[jitl]

I think of Vala as the “Swift of Gnome”. As in, a nice language primarily useful for programming in the World Of Gnome, like Swift is a nice language for programming in the World of Apple. I don’t use Gnome, so I’m not interested in their Swift. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[dsego]

Vala hasn't really caught on outside of the GTK world, since it's based on the glib object system.

[nicoburns]

Similar to a language like D. Technically quite good, but not quite compelling enough that it has picked up momentum that is likely to push it into the mainstream and generate a large library ecosystem.

[masklinn]

Do you mean Vale? Vala (the gnome langage) is in an unrelated category.

[ylluminate]

Vala seemed interesting to me quite a while ago, but V ticks the right boxes.