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: - codegen: + Actually write declaration for GNodeTraverseFunc wrapper [#786845] + Don't transfer ownership of variable if target-type is unknown [#736774] + Adjust format-index for printf/scanf-methods which throw errors [#781061] + Use given dup_function for structs - libvaladoc: Fix some -Wincompatible-pointer-types warnings - tests: Fix some syntax issues [#786652] - Add .editorconfig file [#786620] * GIR parser: - Better support of "cprefix" argument in metadata - Support "cname" argument in metadata * Bindings: - Add javascriptcoregtk-4.0 and avoid skips in webkit2gtk*-4.0 - Update GIR-based bindings - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.22.19 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.37/vala-0.37.91.changes (2.64K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.37/vala-0.37.91.tar.xz (3.23M) sha256sum: 8009915ca095697dafd98b3df8a3c0f55268490ee6200e568a092ff023a5d799 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list