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 ==== * Regression and bug fixes: - codegen: Always assign original variable when consuming instance to destroy [#781] - build: Require --with-cgraph configure flag when cross-compiling [#775] * Bindings: - gdk-3.0,gtk+-3.0: Update from 3.24.7+ - gtk4: Update to 3.94.0+2594593d - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.2+ git master - pango: Fix StringBuilder parameter of scan_word() ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.44/vala-0.44.3.changes (970) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.44/vala-0.44.3.tar.xz (3.19M) sha256sum: 8553b422484af88be1685d8b47f7b0df36ae4477c3e77e89ab22276ffed1eae9 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list