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: - Fix links in the Manual - libvaladoc: Change link to Valadoc wiki page for HTML doclet - valadoc: Use HTML5 doctype in HTML doclet - codegen: Let methods return -1 on error by default if possible [#526] - Allow TypeModule subclasses as parameter-type in module-init-method [#648] - girparser: Allow changing the type of constants using metadata [#643] - girwriter: Add boolean GIR visible attribute to allow skipping symbols - vala: Report error for error-domains without any code - parser: Accept "empty" enums/error-domains [#253] - codewriter: Output bodies of code-blocks if in VAPIGEN mode [#253] * Bindings: - gobject-2.0: Add lower_case_csuffix attributes to Type* symbols - gdk-3.0,gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.23.0+df045423 - gio-2.0: Add custom IOError.from_errno() to make it work as expected [#253] - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.94.0+bf5f27c6 - gstreamer-rtsp-server-1.0: Update from 1.14+ git master [#653] ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.8.changes (2.17K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.8.tar.xz (3.21M) sha256sum: 5c35e087a7054e9f0a514a0c1f1d0a0d7cf68d3e43c1dbeb840f9b0d815c0fa5 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
