. "Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system (that \"can be seen as an alternative to C-derived languages such as C++ and Objective-C\").Vala is syntactically similar to C# and includes several features such as: anonymous functions, signals, properties, generics, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, and foreach statements."@en . "Vala"@en . "0.30.0" . . . . . . .