Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject type system.
About Vala What is Vala? # Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features such as: Interfaces Properties Signals Foreach statements Lambda expressions Type inferencing for local variables Generics Non-null types Assisted memory management Exception handling Type modules ...
Introduction Vala is a programming language using modern high-level abstractions without imposing additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. Vala uses the GObject type system and has additional code generation routines that make targeting the GNOME stack simple.
About Vala 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.
Learn about Vala source files and compilation process, including syntax and usage of the valac compiler for translating Vala code into C files.
Vala 0.56 Here's what's new in Vala release version 0.56 Lorenz Wildberg 2022-03-18 Blog After 4 months of work we are proud to announce a new release of Vala. This time it contains lots of new language features and advancements and of course also the usual bug fixes and binding updates. Asynchronous Main Function # With the new release the main function can now be defined as async. This has ...