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 bug fixes: - Improve error output for incompatible method signatures (Add CallableType as base for DelegateType, MethodType, SignalType) - codegen: + Initialize temp-variable for fixed-size arrays to zero first [#787152] + Add support for "type-func" in ui-files [#787033] * Bindings: - gtk+-3.0,gtk+-4.0: Update - libxml-2.0: Bind xmlLastElementChild and xmlPreviousElementSibling - pangocairo: CairoFontMap.set_default() is not an instance method - gio-2.0: Application.set_default() is not an instance method ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.0.changes (1.11K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.38/vala-0.38.0.tar.xz (3.23M) sha256sum: 2d88f3961ea64c17f2fe14ad61db9129dd42b4f6de41432ad6a1a29ffe05c479 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list