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: + Improve array-dup-wrapper for empty arrays [#999] + Don't call get_ccode_finish_instance() with non-async methods + Cast initializer-list to struct for non-constant/-array assignment [#1013] + Consistently use get_ccode_lower_case_prefix() for function names [#1008] - vala: + Correctly handle qualified struct type in initializer list [#1004] + Fix value-type for ArrayCreationExpression used as argument [#1009] + Improve parameter check of "get" method used for foreach [#1017] + Don't carry floating reference into unknown target type expression [#1018] - girparser: Actually respect given cprefix metadata for enumerations - girwriter: Append symbol-attributes to callback field [#1006] - libvaladoc/girimporter: Skip "function-macro" elements - build: Update git-version-gen to latest upstream - tests: Build typelib if g-ir-compiler is available * Bindings: - gtk+-3.0: Deprecated abstract methods are not required to be implemented - harfbuzz-gobject: Update to 2.6.8 - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.29.2 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.46/vala-0.46.11.changes (2.93K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.46/vala-0.46.11.tar.xz (3.27M) sha256sum: 8e57bffcd418329c5b4b93191778effdfaa5be3f318c0d76e18fc7fbc779a209 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list