[cendyne]

Vala was super neat as it came out of the ElementaryOS line of work. Their holistic focus towards usability and approachability of a Linux distro was inspiring enough that I even supported them with my meager student developer income. Since then, I've moved to Mac and haven't dabbled much in desktop Linux machines. As it grew older and some things got broken up (like serenity and ladybird), the novelty-energy wore off and I looked away for years.

As a language, I hoped Vala would pave the way for a beautiful high performance application tool. Instead, we got Electron.

[mlinksva]

Vala is quite a bit older than ElementaryOS, though maybe that's the primary use for a long time now? I vaugely remember Vala as inspired by and reacting to an even earlier trend of GTK applicatons in C#/Mono such as F-Spot and Banshee.

[asdfgasa123]

what does serenityos/ladybird have to do with Vala/linux? also Vala did not come out of elementary os... its older by like 5 years