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author | Alistair Thomas <astavale@yahoo.co.uk> | 2018-11-19 22:36:09 +0000 |
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committer | Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz@ubuntu.com> | 2018-11-20 08:22:38 +0100 |
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@@ -1,42 +1 @@ -Vala is a 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 - - https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ +See README.md |