I cannot add much to the vala yes/no question, as the only part of ala I've seen by know are Matthews's plugin in g-p. Two or maybe three things are important to me, in case of:
- Geany needs to keep its small memory footprint - Created code needs to run on all plattforms Geany currently is running on -- At least I know of *BSD, Solaris,, MacOS X, Windows, Linux and we need to stay compatible with curent stable versions of SLES, RHEL etc. which means at least RHEL 5.x and SLES 10. Also at least for the next year we need to keep on running on Debian Squeeze also. - There needs to be a final, let's call it C-only-release (well, having 1.24 in some would be a good idea anyway) - g-p should keep on running: We got a lot of badly maintained, but good used plugins. If a major rewrite is needed for them, I doubt it will be done for a huge number of.
Cheers, Frank