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I'm a C# developer who stumbled across a new programming language for linux called vala. It has almost exactly the same syntax as C#, which is awesome. I never really was a big fan of Mono. This allows programmers to write GTK+ apps in a C# style language. My question is: Does vala get compiled into C?
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Vala is intended to provide runtime access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. To use a library with Vala, all that needed is an API file (. vapi) containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax.
While it is true that a more mainstream language would lower the barrier to entry for new first-party and third-party developers, Vala has proven to be a tremendously effective tool for our needs. Vala is an object-oriented programming language developed by the GNOME Foundation, which was first released in 2006.
Vala is a programming language using modern high level abstractions without imposing additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.
But as they prepared to take the route themselves, an Eclipse cultist armed with a machine gun appeared and opened fire. Vala, caught out of cover, was shot to death.
Yes, Vala is compiled directly to C. From the Vala homepage:
valac produces C source and header files from Vala source files as if you've written your library or application directly in C. Using a Vala library from a C application won't look different than using any other GObject-based library. There won't be a vala runtime library and applications can distribute the generated C code with their tarballs, so there are no additional run- or build-time dependencies for users.
You can read more about it here (and also get tutorials, mailing lists, et cetera). It's quite an interesting project.
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From Wikipedia:
Rather than being compiled directly to assembler or to an intermediate language, Vala is compiled to C which is then compiled with the platform's standard C compiler.
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As John and Chris pointed out, Vala does indeed get compiled to C.
In fact, you can see the generated C code by running the Vala compiler with the -C (or --ccode) flag.
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