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April 30, 2007

Vala 0.0.9 Released

Posted: 2007-04-30 23:08:00
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Vala 0.0.9 has been released. Vala "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." It offers features such as: interfaces, properties, lambda expressions, local variable type inference, and more.

This release includes: support for defining new generic classes, improved array support, improved abstract property support, basic support for flags types, improvements to the GLib binding, memory management fixes, plus other changes and bug fixes.