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<section id="overview">
	<h>Overview</h>
	<p>Vala is a new 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.</p>
	<section id="gettingstarted">
		<h>Getting started</h>
		<p>The classic "Hello, world" example in Vala:</p>
		<blockcode>
using GLib;

public class Sample : Object {
	public Sample () {
	}

	public void run () {
		stdout.printf ("Hello, world!\n");
	}

	static int main (string[] args) {
		var sample = new Sample ();
		sample.run ();
		return 0;
	}
}</blockcode>
		<p>Store the code in a file whose name ends in ".vala", such as <code>hello.vala</code>, and compile it with the command:</p>
		<blockcode>valac -o hello hello.vala</blockcode>
		<p>This will produce an executable file called <code>hello</code>.</p>
	</section>
</section>

