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: Correctly set array-length for NoAccessorMethods properties [#1316] - codegen: Detect usage of static type-parameter in runtime context [#1326] - vala: Avoid critical in SourceFile.get_mapped_length() [#1330] - codegen: Make sure to initialize static collections - codegen: Split reserved identifiers for C and Vala - codegen: Check cname of fields and methods against reserved identfiers [#1329] * Bindings: - glib2.0: Add abs() to int8/int16/int32/ssize_t [#1328] - Add initial wayland-client binding - Add geocode-glib-2.0 binding - Add rest-1.0 bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.2.changes (1.42K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.56/vala-0.56.2.tar.xz (3.78M) sha256sum: 66c9619bb17859fd1ac3aba0a57970613e38fd2a1ee30541174260c9fb90124c _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list