This section provides an overview of what vala is, and why a developer might want to use it.

It should also mention any large subjects within vala, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for vala is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics.

Note that the compiler will not prevent you from using variable for which its value ownership been transfeered.

Both glib-2.0 and gobject-2.0 dependencies are required unless --nostdpkg is explicitly given.

Methods are exactly the same as function, but they act on an object instance.