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Index of / is a personal blog at bassi.io about programming, systems and culture. Since 2016, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “The Vala Language (2017)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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24HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link bassi.io for Emmanuele Bassi's posts on Vala's standing among GNOME developers and on GTK's rendering API, including the GSK overview and GTK4 changes. Commenters cite these posts as sources.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Vala Language (2017)
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
  2. Dev vs. Ops
    5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-08-11
  3. GTK Scene Kit: Offloading UI Toolkit Rendering to the GPU
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-10
  4. The Mirror
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-24
  5. History of Gnome, Episode 1.2: Desktop Wars
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. jgillich · 2017-04-05
    Actually, quite the opposite, the GNOME folks have been moving away from it: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/ I think the only Vala maintainer right now is from Elementary OS, where they use primarily Vala.

    Comment linking /articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/

    on “Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year”
  2. goranmoomin · 2024-08-17

    Submitted The Vala Language (2017) as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  3. ndiddy · 2024-04-08
    Has Vala seen much activity recently? The last time I remember hearing about it was reading a blog post from one of the main GNOME developers ( https://www.bassi.io/articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/ ) saying that Vala was basically being maintained by a single developer and he didn't recommend using it for new development.

    Comment linking /articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/

    on “Vala Programming Language”
  4. executesorder66 · 2017-08-13

    Submitted Dev vs. Ops as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  5. war1025 · 2020-01-21
    It's used but some of the core gnome developers have advocated for people to stop using it. What I can find with a quick search this morning: [1] [2] Then again, there are also several people who still say it's worth using: [3] [4] So maybe it's just Emmanuele Bassi advocating against it. If you look at the development pace, though, it hasn't really seen any significant development for quite a long time. [1] https:/…

    Comment linking /articles/2017/02/13/on-vala/

    on “Cello – High Level C”
  6. ashitlerferad · 2016-05-09

    Submitted Who wrote GTK+ 3.20 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. bwindels · 2016-09-19
    For Gtk+ this might be a good place to start: https://blog.gtk.org/2016/06/15/drawing-in-gtk/ The API will likely change considerably in Gtk4, more here: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2016/07/05/gsk-demystified-1/

    Comment linking /articles/2016/07/05/gsk-demystified-1/

    on “The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)”
  8. dsego · 2018-11-26

    Submitted The History of Gnome as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. amyjess · 2017-02-13

    Submitted On Vala as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. desiderantes · 2017-01-11

    Submitted Constraints Editing (GTK+) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. aragilar · 2025-08-04

    Submitted Governance in Gnome as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. lproven · 2021-07-16

    Submitted Halting problem: Dev vs. Ops – the Linux app distribution problem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. AceJohnny2 · 2018-11-08

    Submitted History of Gnome as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. bryanlarsen · 2017-08-11

    Submitted Dev v Ops as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. j_koreth · 2017-02-21

    Submitted Don't Use Vala as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. ashitlerferad · 2016-08-10

    Submitted GTK Scene Kit: Offloading UI Toolkit Rendering to the GPU as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. tpush · 2023-08-24

    Submitted The Mirror (Possible Future of the GObject Type System) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. todsacerdoti · 2023-08-24

    Submitted The Mirror as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Tomte · 2023-06-11

    Submitted Dev vs. Ops (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. pabs3 · 2022-05-25

    Submitted Amberol – Rust and GTK4 music player as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. maple3142 · 2020-02-18

    Submitted Dev vs. Ops (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. maple3142 · 2020-02-18

    Submitted Dev vs. Ops (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. JoshTriplett · 2018-12-21

    Submitted History of Gnome / Episode 1.c: Applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. AceJohnny2 · 2018-11-08

    Submitted History of Gnome, Episode 1.2: Desktop Wars as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. se7entime · 2018-11-02

    Submitted [Podcast] History of Gnome: The 'Friendly' Desktop Wars Begin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. JoshTriplett · 2017-10-13

    Submitted GLib tools rewrite as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. generic_user · 2016-12-06

    Submitted GTK Scene Kit – GSK Demystified as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. cheiVia0 · 2016-10-18

    Submitted Constraints as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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