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Re:Cello – High Level C by war1025 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:05AM (#22104433)
Vala is actually a really pleasant way to interact with the various bits of the Gnome environment.

It's a shame, in my opinion, that it never really received widespread love.

I think all serious work on it stopped about a decade ago.

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Re:Cello – High Level C by jopsen on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:12AM (#22105393)
Isn't it still used by gnome, elementary, etc?

I suppose it's very gnome specific.

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Re:Cello – High Level C by war1025 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:18AM (#22107035)
It's used but some of the core gnome developers have advocated for people to stop using it.

What I can find with a quick search this morning: [1] [2]

Then again, there are also several people who still say it's worth using: [3] [4]

So maybe it's just Emmanuele Bassi advocating against it. If you look at the development pace, though, it hasn't really seen any significant development for quite a long time.

[1] https://twitter.com/ebassi/status/827482509982195712

[2] https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/

[3] https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/02/19/on-problems-wi...

[4] https://blogs.gnome.org/despinosa/2017/02/14/vala-is-not-a-p...

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