Hello, Vala!

A while ago I've been playing with Vala. The cool thing about Vala is that it's a cutting edge language which is able to produce programs with similar performance to those written directly in C. Obviously, it may prove to be a perfect language for fast audio-processing tasks, and there already are bindings for JACK, liboil (now removed from PySoy), an ongoing effort to create bindings for libsndfile and probably other libraries, which I overlooked.

For the exercise, I tried to create Vala bindings for liblo, the lightweight OSC protocol library. They're still unpolished, but already usable in a straightforward, almost C-like way:

static void main(string[] args)
{
    Lo.Address t = new Lo.Address(null, "8080");
    Lo.send(t, "/box/grid/led/all", "i", 1);
}

Right now, I'm working on Vala bindings for LV2 and the accompanying Lilv library. For this purpose and for further experiments with LV2 plugins I've created uSynth capsula - a project, which currently provides little more than a functional port of lv2jack host from Lilv source distribution. It does not have any support for plugin GUIs yet, but it's a planned feature. Loading GUIs with SLV2 (a Lilv predecessor) worked to some extent:

Capsula is still in the earliest planning stages and doesn't have a roadmap yet. For now, I'm thinking about a full featured LV2 plugin host, completely controllable by OSC. I don't have any further ideas, but perhaps you have? Then, by all means, feel free to join the fun!