vala 0.47.4

[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:
    + Skip StructRegisterFunction for boolean/integer/floating types [#901]
    + Handle different type-symbols in visit_base_access() [#901]
    + Explicitly include header for length-type of arrays
    + Explicitly include <glib.h> as needed for null-literal
    + Make *_try_id specific to emit-context instead being global states
  - vala:
    + Improve detection of recursive struct declarations [#902]
    + Inline allocated arrays require length or initializer [#903]
  - parser: Improve robustness and behavior of --keep-going

 * Bindings:
  - javascriptcoregtk-4.0: Make JSC.Class usable by defining the right callback
  - gtk4: Update to 3.96.0+4ab12ab7
  - vapi: Update GIR-based bindings


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.47/vala-0.47.4.changes  (2.12K)

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