I love Vala!
Thanks for your hard work :)
andi
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 22:49 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
We are pleased to announce version 0.7.5 of Vala, a compiler for the
GObject type system.
Vala 0.7.5 is now available for download at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.7/
Changes since 0.7.4
* Add support for static properties.
* Add support for delegate properties.
* Support virtual default handler for signals.
* Add limited support for derived compact classes.
* Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal).
* Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
* Many bug fixes and binding updates.
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming
language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional
runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to
applications and libraries written in C.
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
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+. It's planned to provide generated bindings for
the full GNOME Platform at a later stage.
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.
More information about Vala is available at
http://live.gnome.org/Vala
Jürg Billeter
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