vala 0.43.90

[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:
  - codegen: Replace some unfortunate asserts with internal error reports
  - codegen: Properly handle and catch inner-error of finally-block (#742)
  - codegen: Pass lambda expression of variable initializer to signal connect
  - vala: Check inferred variable_type of LocalVariables
  - vala: Parser doesn't ensure "protected" to be applied on TypeSymbol members
  - libvaladoc: Don't change the size of an array in-parameter
  - g-i: Fix return value on error in start_discriminator()

 * Bindings:
  - Add goocanvas-2.0 bindings (#739)
  - gdk-3.0: Update to 3.24.4+a0129f55
  - glib-2.0: Bind g_log_writer_journald/_standard_streams/_default as
    LogWriterFunc (#559)
  - goocanvas: Update from 1.0.0+af07af5d
  - gstreamer: Update from 1.15.1+
  - gtk+-4.0: Update to 3.94.0+a7fa1cf6
  - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.43/vala-0.43.90.changes  (1.87K)

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