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: - Revert "valadoc: Drop duplicated code to add source files and use CodeContext API" and "valadoc: Update API tests" (#748) - valadoc: Report warning if resources for doclet could not be copied - libvaladoc: Properly support the output of async constructors (#753) - girparser: Correctly set array_length_type for delegates returning an array - Revert "vala: Don't replace assignments for local variables with non-null simple-types" (#755) * Bindings: - Follow GTK upstream rename to gtk4 and gtk4-unix-print - gtk4,gtk4-unix-printer: Update to 3.94.0+02e856f6 - gtk+-unix-print-*.0: Fix PrintJob.get_page_ranges(), Printer.get_hard_margins() - atk-1.0: Adjust for upstream revert of Implementor using G_DEFINE_INTERFACE - clutter-1.0: Drop deprecated from Actor.pick() (#625) - glib-2.0: Add "delegate_target = false" to Log.writer_journald/ _standard_streams/_default - gio-unix-2.0: Add DesktopAppInfo.get_string_list() since 2.60 - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.1+ git master - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.23.91 - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.91.changes (2.42K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.91.tar.xz (3.17M) sha256sum: 2bfce7094f4c3cb372e8229606bd7ab9d99d4ba3f69146474a189f697fe7561f _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list