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: - vala: + Fix circular reference in Property/EnumValueType + Report an internal error for unavailable context and bail + Prevent possible stack-overflow in Class.is_subtype_of() - Add missing CodeContext.pop() calls - codegen: Add more "low-level" includes of "glib.h" - girparser: Decrease return_array_length_idx for transformed function - girparser: Delay adding of "GLib.Object" prerequisite to interfaces - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org * Bindings: - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings * Contributors: Alberto Fanjul, Arnaud Bonatti, Corentin Noël, Evan Nemerson, Florian Brosch, Jeremy Philippe, Michael Gratton, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, Princeton Ferro, Rico Tzschichholz, Simon Werbeck ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.48/vala-0.48.0.changes (1.24K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.48/vala-0.48.0.tar.xz (3.26M) sha256sum: 0926b29614c82a67e36e95996e905ad052f7f7b02fe855b2d17bd14e155e10cc _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list