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> Half the time a new language...

Agree with the point, but Vala is pretty old (relatively speaking). It's been around for a while and the whole idea is to have a GTK/GObject-focused C-family language. Last I looked it was a C transpiler and may still be.

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And if you've ever used GNOME, you've probably used some Vala applications!

I like to use Cheese, the nice little webcam app, to test a webcam when I first set it up or just take a selfie, even when I'm not on GNOME. That's a Vala application :)

Yup, created in 2006 (https://pldb.pub/languages/vala.html). This particular website looks new (whois shows domain registered in May 2022)

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