Linux

So this guy asks me in a job interview last week “Have you ever developed in Go?” and well what’s best to learn a language than writting a prepender (probably a lot of things but don’t kill my thrill)?

There you have it, the probably first ever binary infector written in GoLang (SPTH LIP hxxp://spth.virii.lu/LIP.html “outdately” confirms that - replace hxxp with http, this website is wrongly classified as malicious for some security tools).

Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Vala is syntactically similar to C# and and rather than being compiled directly to assembly or to another intermediate language, Vala is source-to-source compiled to C, which is then compiled with a platform’s standard C compiler, such as GCC.

You can also create VAPI files which are basically native C (not C++) functions you can import to Vala code (I will show an example later). Being a language that is converted into plain and pure C, Vala code can also run on Windows (with the necessary code optimizations, of course).