What is Vala for?

Lets start saying What is Vala for.... While there are many things you can use Vala for, we should stop at its origins and basics, in order to help you to choose Vala as your tool to create your projects.

Vala allows you to create C code with an easy to use Object Oriented Programming paradigm. Object Oriented Programming basics are out of the scope of this book, but may is not strictly necessary if you follow this book to get your work done.

But I don't want to write C code

With Vala you don't need to know any thing about C, if you fit into conventions of Vala. You'll need C to do tasks like write Vala Bindings or get background about Vala's limitations and its C origins.