About vala
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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
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* Various bug fixes:
- Fix GDestroyNotify of delegate parameters in delegate declaration [#639059]
- Avoid critical when connecting dynamic signals
- compiler: Prefix headers for set_cheader_override() if includedir is given
[#793299]
- Don't warn about unused internal methods which are meant to be visible
on DBus [#593902]
- libvaladoc: Prevent WITH_CGRAPH conditional having an impact on generated
sources
* Bindings:
- gio-2.0: Cherry-pick some DBusProxy fixes from 0.40
- gstreamer-1.0: Update from 1.13+ git master
- gdk-3.0,gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.27
ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.8.changes (1.29K)
Download
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.8.tar.xz (3.25M)
sha256sum: 2fa746b51cd66e43577d1da06a80b708c2875cadaafee77e9700ea35cf23882c
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