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And there's the game company actively developing low-level open source software Valve, which my mind first sprung to.

Not to forget https://www.val.town, which call their lambda functions 'vals'

Yep, this was my bad. I thought Vala was dead because of a certain post (I think it was this one [0]), and because I rarely ever heard anyone mention it. I suspect I was wrong. I've been tossing around the idea of switching Vale's name to Valence to help avoid confusion.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Vala-Bassi

When I entered the article I thought it was talking about Vala

Yeah, that one as well.