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---
language: vala
contributors:
- ["Milo Gilad", "https://github.com/bigbash"]
filename: LearnVala.vala
---
In GNOME's own words, "Vala is a 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."
Vala has aspects of Java and C#, so it'll be familiar to those who know either or.
[Read more here.](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala)
```vala
// Single line comment
/* Multiline
Comment */
/**
* Documentation comment
*/
/*
Data Types
*/
// Vala supports the data types supported by most other programming languages.
char character = 'a'
unichar unicode_character = 'u' // 32-bit unicode character
int i; // ints can also have guaranteed sizes (e.g. int64, uint64)
uint j;
long k;
short l;
ushort m;
/*
Basic Syntax
*/
// Like in C#, scope is defined using braces.
// An object or reference is only valid between braces.
```
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