Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to gnome developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different abi compared to applications and libraries written in c.

valac, the vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates vala source code into c source and header files. it uses the gobject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the vala source code. this package also contains the vala-gen-introspect and vapigen binaries that will automatically generate vala bindings.

this package contains the bundled vapi files, which make some common libraries available for vala development.