Happening in the Vala world

Recently I have been working on an initial DBus based service for People, and as many already know the “reference implementation” of People is written in that new awesome great language: Vala. Until very recently Vala had no service side DBus support at all, the 0.3.1 release was the first to introduce a “barely usable” support for service side DBus, the 0.3.2 had a better DBus support, and today I have been able to produce an initial DBus service for People with a slightly patched version of Vala. This is just a start, but it is also a great news for everyone who finds that writing DBus services using dbus-glib involves too much boilerplate.

I have also been trying the use Vala for writing GStreamer elements, this is actually possible and the proof is here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510693#c7. However the GStreamer bindings for Vala still need to be improved to be fully functional.

Kudos to the Vala developers.