Vala: Gotchas, Tips and Tricks

Question

As a programmer who is new to Vala, what is your number one piece of advice to someone who is new to the language?

Answer 1

If you are considering Vala to write a server application then you may like some object pooling features(object token feature) in Aroop. Aroop is a Vala fork that do memory pooling. And it has reference counted garbage collector. You may find a list of features here. Let me name some of the goals here in list,

• Memory pooling
• Writing network servers, shotodol_net,shotodol_web.
• Lock-free queue based message passing
• Plugin based development, shotodol.
• Embedded development