Talk:Vala (programming language): Difference between revisions

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:::::I provided no analysis or overview of the generated code, just the code. Vala is a high level language, which gets transformed into C. If we provide an example of code in the high level language, it makes sense to provide an example of the result of applying the transformation of the AST built from the high level language into C. This is different from showing python to bytecode, or C# to CIL, &c, since Vala is transformed into another commonly used, human-readable, lower-level language. And that's the whole point of vala: to allow "developers to write complex object-oriented code rapidly while maintaining a standard C API and ABI...[producing] C source and header files from Vala source files as if you've written your library or application directly in C."[http://live.gnome.org/Vala#head-76f9b12bb9c9258b22f6dd9ce2533481f9243cc9] [[Special:Contributions/24.243.3.27|24.243.3.27]] ([[User talk:24.243.3.27|talk]]) 02:52, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

::::::Yeah, but this article is not specifically for developers, it's for everyone who hears the word 'Vala' (in this context) and wonders what the language is about. I'm not saying the generated C code is not of interested, it's just not within the scope of this article (and Wikipedia articles in general). Anyone considering Vala for their project will go to other websites anyway. It's clear that some examples of Vala's syntax isare encyclopedic but the generated C code, while human readable, is not, in my opinion. - [[User:Simeon|Simeon]] ([[User talk:Simeon|talk]]) 14:57, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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