Vala for pidgin plugins

Question

Has anyone tried writing a pidgin or libpurple plugin in Vala? From a quick look at the Vala homepage it seems like it would be a great language for it, and make a good opportunity to learn Vala, but learning both Vala and the fine art of pidgin plugins at the same time is a little overwhelming. Anyone have any pointers?

Answer 1

Pidgin-Games is a plugin for pidgin written in vala. You could have a look at its source code http://pidgin-games.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pidgin-games/trunk/src/. You probably will want to read the Vala Tutorial and code samples first if you haven't already.

Answer 2

I also started writing a VAPI for libpurple and I also was able to write a small libpurple client for testing purposes in Vala... So the answer can only be of course! ;)