Use Vala for your next library, %username%

Write your next library in Vala and get bindings for free!

Here is example how to use functions and objects from vala in your favorite language.

Why Vala?

• Vala is very fast
• Vala manages memory for you
• Write in Vala, (re)use from any %lang%

Setup Vala

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install valac gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev

Fedora

sudo yum install vala gobject-introspection-devel

OSX

brew install vala gobject-introspection

Make shared library

Source file for shared library is object.vala.

Run in shell:

make

You should get vala-object.so and ValaObject-0.1.typelib and some other files. .so and .typelib are required for next examples.

If you want more details - read about GObject Introspection and it's architecture. Otherwise just skip to next step :)

Bindings HOWTO (really easy and automagical)

• Ruby (Ruby 1.9.1, JRuby and Rubinius)
• Python
• Perl
• Lua (Lua 5.1 and LuaJIT 5.1)
• JavaScript (Node.js, seed and gjs)
• PHP
• Other languages

Questions?

• Mailing list: vala
• IRC: #introspection and #vala at irc.gnome.org
• Documentation
• Google+ page