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 ==== * Highlights - Add --abi-stability option for ABI stability of libraries It ensures that the order of class/interface members in Vala sources will be preserved in generated C source (instance/type structs) [#789069] * Various bug fixes: - girparser: + Set NoAccessorMethod for non-readable and construct-only properties + Ignore conflicting closure/destroy indexes + Don't accept methods as property-accessor which throw errors [#792998] - codegen: + Infer error parameter from abstract/virtual base methods [#614294] + Internally generated delegates don't require a typedef [#787521] + Fix return-type for cancelled async creation methods of classes [#792942] + Use G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS - vala: Variadic constructors without a real first parameter are not allowed - libvaladoc: Keep bootstrap-support with valac >= 0.16.1 * Bindings: - gtk+-3.0: Fix cheader_filename of Plug and Socket - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.93.0+4d36a0bf - gtk+-4.0: Only override type of "event" parameters - posix: Add ctime(3) and fix binding of struct hostent and gethostbyname(3) ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.6.changes (2.95K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.39/vala-0.39.6.tar.xz (3.16M) sha256sum: 284754a3c3a49aff5e458bcd1df4f5974c4927150e4023c3e95af6757fcaaaba _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list