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: - parser: Adjust various source references - vala: More regular invocations of check() on inferred Expression.value_type * Bindings: - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.2+ git master - gtk4: Update to 3.94.0+eacbeb9e - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.44/vala-0.44.0.changes (985) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.44/vala-0.44.0.tar.xz (3.18M) sha256sum: a2df486f8128f5121d18abd9ee6263ea14297007eaf8572904768a7397fbfbd7 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
