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March 03, 2008

Vala 0.1.7 Released

Posted: 2008-03-03 06:08:08
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Vala 0.1.7 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 private property accessors, support for property default values, improved delegate support, improved exception support, improved warning and error reporting, support for generic types, improved pointer support, new and updated library bindings, Windows fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.