For a holomorphic vector bundle , is its space of holomorphic sections on , with their restrictions. It is the kernel of the bundle Dolbeault operator on smooth sections.
A nowhere-zero smooth section of a holomorphic line bundle writes its Dolbeault operator as . Its integrability gives . If , then globally. The section is nowhere zero and holomorphic. This argument requires no compactness and explicitly constructs the holomorphic trivialization.
A unitary representation of the fundamental group of a connected complex manifold gives a bundle with locally constant unitary transition matrices. Its induced flat unitary connection has part equal to its Dolbeault operator, so it is the Chern connection for the induced Hermitian metric. On a compact Riemann surface, zero curvature gives degree zero; the subbundle curvature inequality makes the bundle semistable.