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: Actually free data when using "remove(_all)" on GLib.Queue/(S)List [#1238] - vala: + Parameter following ellipsis parameter is not allowed [#1237] + More thorough check of ValueType and set CodeNode.error on failure + Really check compatiblity of error types for delegate symbol + Correctly output signature of callable throwing error + Report error for non ErrorType in throws + Implement CodeWriter.visit_foreach_statement()/visit_catch_clause() - parser: Make sure ErrorCodes are accessible as needed - girparser: Add support for "ref_/ref_sink_/unref_function" metadata for classes [#1233] ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.7.changes (2.56K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.7.tar.xz (3.42M) sha256sum: 0bb5a9b4f6d175499ec0a58024adc035aa5170080f533c28d9c358d1a32c536a _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list