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 boxing of non-external SimpleType structs [#1273] + Cast given default-value of struct with possible member initializer [#1272] + Clear existing length values when revisiting a slice expression [#1274] - vala: + Allow unsafe assignment of integer to enum while reporting a notice + Non nullable enum types are simple types [#1268] + Correctly replace "in" expression in pre-/postconditions of method [#1269] * Bindings: - gio-2.0: Add custom MemoryOutputStream.with_*data() wrappers [#1271] ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.9.changes (1.08K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.9.tar.xz (3.43M) sha256sum: 1e9307d81e211f19e2501e8fe4fb4dd19fb927c484b55ffcef714e8c515d0079 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list