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: Replace some unfortunate asserts with internal error reports - codegen: Properly handle and catch inner-error of finally-block (#742) - codegen: Pass lambda expression of variable initializer to signal connect - vala: Check inferred variable_type of LocalVariables - vala: Parser doesn't ensure "protected" to be applied on TypeSymbol members - libvaladoc: Don't change the size of an array in-parameter - g-i: Fix return value on error in start_discriminator() * Bindings: - Add goocanvas-2.0 bindings (#739) - gdk-3.0: Update to 3.24.4+a0129f55 - glib-2.0: Bind g_log_writer_journald/_standard_streams/_default as LogWriterFunc (#559) - goocanvas: Update from 1.0.0+af07af5d - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.1+ - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.94.0+a7fa1cf6 - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.90.changes (1.87K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.90.tar.xz (3.17M) sha256sum: da35a2403aeab4227ae630c6d6ae5a8e2af7aae1868eb3394da8fda8db59cd84 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list