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Import of vala tarballs into git
https://github.com/cgwalters/vala-tarballs-as-git

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Import of vala tarballs into git

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cgwalters/vala-tarballs-as-git
• Owner: cgwalters
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2012-01-19T04:17:18.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-01-19T04:17:36.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T22:42:31.499Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.39 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
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

	http://live.gnome.org/Vala/