[Vala] State of Vala IDEs

[Thomas Jollans <t jollybox de>]

Hi,

I know this is a classic theme and you're all bored of it, but I was 
wondering about the current state of Vala IDEs, in particular, which 
IDEs have/notably lack which features. For my part, what I look for in 
an IDE is primarily (and I know I could get these in vim with ctags and 
clewn) a working debugger and way to get an overview of/jump to symbols 
-- and code completion would be nice, of course.

In particular a working integrated debugger I imagine isn't all that 
common as vala debugging was broken for quite a while.

Val(a)IDE looks dead. But does it do debugging?

I still think it's a shame Valable never took off...

A quick google suggests that Valencia and Geany are what many of you are 
using. Do these integrate a debugger? Does code completition work?

I like the look of MonoDevelop in general from the few times that I've 
had a look at it, if you ignore the fact that it has never really been 
stable. What's the state of its Vala support? Does it work? Does code 
completion work? Critically, does debugging work?

Anjuta, that old horse -- it's never been particularly good to me, but 
as "the GNOME IDE", it may be worth a look -- how's its Vala support? 
Debugger? Code completion?

Thanks
Thomas