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Asciidoctor vs Vala: What are the differences?
Asciidoctor: An open source, pure Ruby processor for converting AsciiDoc documents or strings into HTML and other formats. It is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. Asciidoctor is written in Ruby and runs on all major operating systems ; Vala: An object-oriented programming language. It is a programming language using modern high level abstractions without imposing additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.
Asciidoctor and Vala are primarily classified as "Text Processors" and "Languages" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Asciidoctor are:
- Lightweight markup language for authoring notes
- Articles
- Documentation
On the other hand, Vala provides the following key features:
- Multimedia and Graphics
- Collections
- Files
Pros of Asciidoctor
- GitHub integration1
- Versatile1
- Easy fornatting0
Pros of Vala
- Fast as C1
- Easy sintax simular to C#/Java with sugar from Pyrthon1
- Much easier to do Concurrent/Parallel vs C/C++1
- Productive1
- ARC instead of GC, which is able not only to delete obj1
- The only lang that allows you to create safe OOP wraps1
- With GIR/SWIG u can call vala from any lang1
- Easy learning curve if you're coming from C lang1
- Very documented. valadoc.org1