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 ==== * Highlights: - Allow usage of dynamic on VarType [#187] * Various improvements and bug fixes: - codegen: Use correct target/destroy of delegate field initializer [#1285] - codegen: Stop generating wrappers for dynamic property access - gtkmodule: Improve UI parsing and handling of nested objects and properties - vala: + Add missing TraverseVisitor.visit_data_type() + Improve check of generic type references in static contexts [#1284] + Make sure to drop our "trap" jump target in case of an error [#1287] + Move dynamic property errors to semantic analyzer pass + Free empty stack list for code contexts + Clear SemanticAnalyzer.current_{symbol,source_file} when not needed anymore * Bindings: - gio-2.0,glib-2.0,gobject-2.0: Update 2.72 symbols - gstreamer: Update from 1.19.90+ git main - gtk4: Specify sentinel for GtkAcessible methods - gtk4: Update to 4.6.0+06ec4ec1 - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.55/vala-0.55.3.changes (2.43K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.55/vala-0.55.3.tar.xz (3.76M) sha256sum: c16185e7d1f217836a7cebc649aafe83550bb7b192fbd327ede388cd2c2d5049 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list