Vala (Programming Language)

Vala is a programming language created with the goal of bringing modern language features to C, with no added runtime needs and with little overhead, by targeting the GObject object system. It is being developed by Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini. The syntax borrows heavily from C#. Rather than being compiled directly to assembler or to another intermediate language, Vala is source-to-source compiled to C which is then compiled with a platform's standard C compiler, such as gcc.