We are pleased to announce version 0.9.1 of Vala, a compiler for the GObject type system.
Vala 0.9.1 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.9/ Changes since 0.8.0 * Support constants in enums. * Deprecate +=/-= syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers. * Add experimental support for Dova profile. * Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken). * Add clutter-gst-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil). * Add gdu and gdu-gtk bindings. * Add libesmtp bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Add mx-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson). * Add orc-0.4 bindings (Fabian Deutsch). * Add rest-extras-0.6 bindings (Adrien Bustany). * Updates to the GLib, GStreamer, Linux, SQLite, and other bindings. * Many bug fixes. Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. 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 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+. It's planned to provide generated bindings for the full GNOME Platform at a later stage. 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. More information about Vala is available at http://live.gnome.org/Vala Jürg Billeter _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
