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: Drop confusing warning when accessing interface members * Bindings: - Add webkit2gtk-4.1 bindings - glib-2.0: Fix memory management of TestSuite.add*/get_root() with 2.70 [#1295] - libarchive: Fix a few binding errors - SDL2_ttf: Fix a few binding errors - tiff: Fix a few binding errors ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.0.changes (752) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.0.tar.xz (3.78M) sha256sum: d92bd13c5630905eeb6a983dcb702204da9731460c2a6e4e39f867996f371040 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list