[NAME]
valac \- compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files

[SYNOPSIS]
.B valac
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...

[DESCRIPTION]
Vala  is  a  programming  language  that  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.
.TP
valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala
source code.

/Enable color output/
.RS
When no value is given \fIalways\fR is implied. When neither \fB--color\fR
or \fB--no-color\fR are declared then \fB--color\fR=\fIauto\fR is used where
output is colored when stderr is a terminal.
.RE

/Enable support for ABI stability/
.RS
This changes the current behaviour to output public members of classes and
interfaces the same order as they appear in Vala source.
For libraries is recommended to use \fB--abi-stability\fR to ensure the
maintainability of the resulting Application Binary Interface (ABI).
This option is disabled by default for backward compatibility because it can
break ABI of existing projects.
.RE

[BUGS]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/issues

[HOMEPAGE or CONTACT]
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala

[FEATURES]
Interfaces, properties, signals, foreach, lambda expressions, type
inference for local variables, generics, non-null types, assisted memory
management, exception handling

[AUTHORS]
Jürg Billeter, Raffaele Sandrini, Rico Tzschichholz.