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: Don't apply address-of operator on literals when casting to array - vala: Don't tweak closure on static lambdas [#740] - Revert "codegen: Use copies of error_variable of catch-clauses for nested usage" and add asynchronous "catch-error-scope" regression test [#741] - libvaladoc: Build backing Vala.SourceFile for GIRs processed by importer - libvaladoc/girimporter: Skip "source-position" elements - genie: Support "protected" accessibility and allow explicit "public" [#346] * Bindings: - gst-editing-services-1.0: Fix some construtors and (un)hide symbols - javascriptcoregtk-4.0: Fix GLib.Callback parameters which can't hold target ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.6.changes (1.55K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.6.tar.xz (3.16M) sha256sum: ba2c77fa924c7de17c625af61ddc0cdbbfcf9a670740b5eda3dc0c78bffa61e0 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list