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: - codegen: + Append initializer for "_*_size_" of array field in internal struct + Avoid critical trying to serialize an unsupported type to Variant [#952] + Don't free value if property setter takes ownership [#953] + Correct field declaration for captured inline-allocated array [#954] + Include "glib.h" for G_BEGIN_DECLS/G_END_DECLS usage + Correctly handle transformation of translated string-literal constants + Don't pass CCodeCastExpression to NULL-aware free macro [#953] - vala: + Support struct initializer list in non-constant array [#949] + Handle unlock() statement in CodeWriter + Handle all ctors and dtors in CodeWriter + Consider boolean types are compatible with each other + Parse standalone integer/real literals as expression statement [#961] + Warn about usage of override to implement abstract interface methods * Bindings: - gio-2.0: Update to 2.65.0~a136776e - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master - gtk4: Update to 3.98.2+11495027 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.48/vala-0.48.3.changes (3.18K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.48/vala-0.48.3.tar.xz (3.28M) sha256sum: 0169d5308823691582490bde23a61dd0e19cbea90aa326e747870dd0e0b9fdc2 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list