Completely agree with you.

There is a good free/non-free IDE for Python/Ruby/Perl - Komodo, not as good as Eclipse, but it has the main things in place. Vala however still has nothing. Val(a)IDE is far from being usable and i couldn't find anything else than Monodevelop, Emacs and VI support for it. Monodevelop is closer to what i want it to do, but its Vala plugin is targeted to the 2.0 alpha and doesn't have even code completion yet. And code completion is one of the important things to have when learning a new language. At least it has project support in place, along with syntax highlighting and other goodies supported by the IDE and not related to Vala. And as much as i like Eclipse for its other features, its project system is really convoluted.

Then again, maybe Monodevelop Vala plugin has completion, but i wasn't successful in activating it.

EDIT: This is interesting:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-...er/001093.html