It’s an exciting time to be a software engineer looking to learn a new language. Mojo, a Python rival in the AI ​​space, launched last month and another language that’s starting to make waves is instead competing with C++. Developed by senior scientists from Adobe, Val is being looked at by a number of developers with increasing promise. It’s competing with low-level programming languages, even though it’s a high-level language itself.

Val’s unique selling point is described on its developer blog as its “focus on mutable value semantics for the purpose of writing efficient, generic code.” It purports to be