Why Most Of The Latest Gnome Applications Specifically Written In Vala ?

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  rahul69

  Abhishek Rawal

  Since I came to know that most latest gnome applications are written in Vala, My urge of learning it has increased at it's peak.
  
  As far as I know, Vala code on execution generates C code which is then compiled by GCC & all this happens without affecting the execution time & speed of the application.
  My main question is : If Vala, in the end generates C code only which is compiled by GCC; then what is the need of writing applications in Vala & not C ?
  
  Gnome is not there to fool around, right ?
  What is the technical reason behind it ? Why Vala in Gnome applications & not pure C ?

  Actually Vala makes coding relatively easy for developers than C, as the codes which are complicated to write in C are written easily in Vala.
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  Pensu

  Generally the idea behind using new language is to provide more functionality and make it easier for the developers. Though if in the end it's going to generate C code, I am not sure if you can add much features. But as far as I have read about it, it does add some interesting features over C. So, I guess that should be the reason.