vala 0.40.9

[Rico Tzschichholz <install-module master gnome org>]

About vala
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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
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 * Various improvements and bug fixes:
  - girparser: Actually resolve type-arguments to be able to box them if needed
  - girparser: Handle unsupported aliases which could not be fully processed
  - codegen: Free errors after returning them on GDBusMethodInvocation [#657]
  - codegen: Fix invocation of abstract/virtual methods with NoWrapper in
    compact classes
  - vala: Allow read-only properties
  - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org

 * Bindings:
  - glib-2.0: Add Array.remove*() wrapper to avoid leaking generic elements
  - glib-2.0: Add (u)long.parse/try_parse() and float.parse/try_parse() [#649]
  - glib-2.0: Add return-type of Queue.remove*(), add HashTable.foreach_steal()
  - gtk+-3.0: Update to 3.23.2+6b6e53fd
  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.94.0+4e868584
  - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.20.5


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.9.changes  (1.86K)

Download
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