Developer Guides

You can learn here how writing programs with Vala works and find out more about certain features.

Getting started

• Installation

• Hello, World!

Basics

• Variables

• Data Types

• Operators

• Functions

• Comments

• Conditional Execution

• Loops

Object-Oriented Programming

• Overview

• Classes

• Structs

• Enumerations and Flags

• Compact Classes

• Acess Modifiers

• Methods

• Constructors

• Properties

• Signals

• Deriving

• Alias’es

• Interfaces

Code Organization

• Project structure

• Introducing Meson

• Namespaces

Data Collections

• Arrays

• Lists

• Hashtables

Memory Management

• References and values

• Ownership

Additional Concepts

• Error handling

• Asynchronous methods

• Parameter directions

Advanced topics

• GTK integration

• DBUS integration

• Functions with variable length arguments

• Methods with Syntax Support

• Assertions and Contract Programming

• Preprocessor

• API documention