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: - vala: Improve accessibility check inside member initializer [#1300] - vala: Don't allow nullable enum value as real GObject property [#1074] - valadoc: Include path to doclet in error message - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org * Bindings: - gtk4: Fix GLib.Value parameter in ContentProvider.get_value() - gtk4: Split out gtk4-wayland and gtk4-x11 into separate bindings [#1308] - gstreamer: Update from 1.21+ git main - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.1.changes (1.25K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.1.tar.xz (3.78M) sha256sum: c518b81dfdda82d1cdf586b3f9b2323162cb96bd3cb5a2c03650cea025d91fb9 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list