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: - Only warn about imcompatible type of external construct property [#803] - codegen: Use array_length of collection variable instead of expression - girparser: Skip 'attribute' elements - girwriter: Report error on secondary top-level namespace [#805] - genie: Drop unused "writeonly" token - genie: Make 'self' match its TokenType name - tests: Null-terminate arrays for compatibility test of uint8 / uchar [#809] * Bindings: - gmodule-2.0: Build from GIR - glib-2.0: Add Unicode 12.0 symbols - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.24.9~18177388 - gtk4: Update to 3.96.0+8cfdd6c5 - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.25.1 - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.45/vala-0.45.2.changes (1.56K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.45/vala-0.45.2.tar.xz (3.20M) sha256sum: f6d1ac1c3e127495761700108849920f022a7af6f4e4c8823e75a58234c86886 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list