Gnome's object oriented C variant

[Arc Riley]

So KDE use C++
OSX uses Objective C
Windows uses C#

and Gnome is increasingly using their own language called Vala.

Vala (.vala) code is processed to C for compiling using GObject (part of
glib) for the object-oriented bits.  You can use GObject in C directly (much
of Gnome still does) but the amount of boilerplate code needed is..
intimidating.  The C code Vala outputs is pretty similar to what you'd write
in C while being much cleaner to edit as .vala.

Unlike C++, C#, and Objective C, there's no runtime dependencies beside
glib/gobject.  Much of Gnome is still pure C but many sub-projects have been
moving to Vala to make Gnome easier to work on.

Thought people on the list may find this interesting.
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