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 handle chain up of struct creation methods [#1264] + Use a dedicated EmitContext for _variant_get*() functions + gtkmodule: Handle nested closure elements and bind them accordingly [#1262] - vala: + NullLiteral is not a valid argument for string concatenation [#1260] + Set is_yield_expression in async context when chaining up to async base ctor + Report statement parsing error if it is not meant to be an expression [#1261] + girparser: Avoid possibily creating duplicated attributes - vapigen.m4: use $PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR * Bindings: - glib-2.0: Always use the actual C type for CCode.array_length_type - gstreamer: Cherry-pick bindings fixes from 0.56 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.10.changes (2.17K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.52/vala-0.52.10.tar.xz (3.43M) sha256sum: 9c201bf812d9874e21bde53f8d9c14f651748b1a81441ff5c929122444901008 _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list