A Gnome Developer's Arguments on Vala Being a “Dead” Language Posted by camus2 on Monday February 13, 2017 @09:27PM from the phoronix.com dept. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Vala-Bassi ( 1 comment | 3 points | on HN )
Maybe Zig[1] would be a good replacement for Vala usecases, one day?
[1] http://ziglang.org/