About vala ========== valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code.
The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules (Plugins) Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME Platform. Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject- based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as a library, so that all compile-time information is available when generating a binding. News ==== * Various bug fixes: - vala: Don't transform an explicit "null" into valid format-string [#791215] - codegen: Don't create null-safe destroy-wrapper for GenericType [#791283] - Improve error message for missing type-parameter on enclosing type [#587905] * GIR parser: - Allow change of parameter names - Handle metadata for fields inside a transparent union - Accept setters with boolean return-type as valid property-accessor - Don't mark simple-type out-parameters with '?' as nullable * Valadoc - libvaladoc: Actually resolve "percnt;" to '%' * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Fix potential null pointer dereference in string.joinv() [#791257] - gobject-2.0: Add missing GType constants for fundamentals [#791023] - gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13+ git master - gtk+-3.0: Switch to GIR [#730746] - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.93.0+6af4947e - posix: Move signal constants to an enum and add few missing ones [#790958] ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.2.changes (3.63K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.2.tar.xz (3.18M) sha256sum: aabe98aff2b463f5fb330a981315fa8f0dd0ce39b74af5c0f18e5fdeb5f34dc7 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
