The win32 installer: http://code.google.com/p/valide/downloads/detail?name=vala-0.5.5.exe
2009/1/10 Jürg Billeter <j...@bitron.ch> > We are pleased to announce version 0.5.5 of Vala, a compiler for the > GObject type system. > > Vala 0.5.5 is now available for download at: > http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.5/ > > Changes since 0.5.4 > * Improve syntax of owned property getters. > * Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options. > * Remove --disable-non-null commandline option. > * Many bug fixes. > > 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 > > > The Vala Team > > Jürg Billeter and Raffaele Sandrini > > > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > Vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > -- Nicolas Joseph Responsable de la rubrique GTK+ de developpez.com / In charge of the GTK+ section on developpez.com http://nicolasj.developpez.com
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