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: + Allow null to initialize non-null struct inside initializer list [#594] + Implementing GLib.Source.prepare/check is optional since 2.36 + Fix variadic constructors for compact classes and structs [#1195] + Use detroy_value() for delete statement [#1201] + Fix params-array in constructor for struct [#1202] - vala: + Rely on DataType.to_qualified_string() for error-types [#1206] + Disallow resize() for constant arrays [#944] - Recognize multiple valid CCode.gir_namespace/_version in VAPI files [#1189] - Slightly improve source_reference for get_dup_func_expression() - girwriter: + Respect GIR.name for constants, errordomains and delegates [#1196] + Add explicit writable attribute to all field elements + Fix position of "result" parameter for struct constructor + Write missing c:type attribute of compact class record - girparser: Add support for "final" class attribute - tests/girwriter: Add missing [Flags] annotation - testrunner: Add support for girwriter tests - docs: Update bootstrap instructions in README.md * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Add Uri.to_string/to_string_partial() (since 2.66) - gobject-2.0: Fix the Closure.invoke() signature ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.50/vala-0.50.10.changes (2.57K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.50/vala-0.50.10.tar.xz (3.38M) sha256sum: be721ff3f0181eab6d33eccacf281f66f308faa1e5e554f08fdf67159a459515 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list