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Vala 0.5.6 Released
Languages :: Vala
Vala 0.5.6 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: the addition of Log.FILE, Log.LINE and Log.METHOD constants; the addition of Lua bindings; the addition of MySQL bindings; partial POSIX bindings; improvements to the .gir reader; bug fixes; and other changes.
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