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 improvements and bug fixes: - codegen + Only add property-enum and GParamSpec-array for GObject classes + Use g_enum/flags_to_string while targeting glib >= 2.54 + Add destroy param when invoking delegate returned by delegate [#792077] - Don't write trailing space in function declarations/definitions [#688447] - vala: Add pkgdatadir and pkglibdir to pkg-config file - gidlparser: Update type qualifiers * Bindings: - gtk+-2.0/3.0: Don't hide user_data in Clipboard.set_with_data() [#792237] - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.26+6f26d0dc - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.93.0+6aeae2c8 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.4.changes (1.95K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.4.tar.xz (3.16M) sha256sum: db5bdbbaec468c02a03028e35b6bcf771862998f08f2a959a60dd1e16719546d _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list