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January 20, 2008

Vala 0.1.6 Released

Posted: 2008-01-20 12:53:13
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Vala 0.1.6 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 instance delegates, support for conditional method compilation, support for nested generic types, limited support for nullable types, improved pointer support, basic support for method preconditions and postconditions, new and updated bindings, improved documentation, bug fixes, and other changes.