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Well, none of the things listed in our current call for help are issues with modifying the language. In fact, we spend a lot of time on improving things like th
by BruceM 13y ago
Well, none of the things listed in our current call for help are issues with modifying the language. In fact, we spend a lot of time on improving things like the tools, libraries and documentation.
Lately, we've made our test framework integrate well with Jenkins (using Surefire output) and have been getting more and more of our libraries and tests building via Jenkins.
We've also been pulling out some chunks of code and turning them into useful and usable libraries. Our binary data library is an example of this (http://opendylan.org/documentation/binary-data/ http://opendylan.org/documentation/binary-data/).
And one of our hackers has spent a large amount of time this week cleaning up and re-working a tool that he had for visualizing the compiler's optimizer. This will let us better perform bugfixes, ensure that the transforms are operating correctly.
We do have areas where we intend to improve the language. There are some extensions to the type system that we're looking at, improving Unicode support, and improving our numerics. But these aren't our main or daily areas of focus.
We want to bring our IDE to non-Windows platforms, we're improving our compiler backends, improving the GC integration, working on editor integration with CodeMirror, vim, emacs, and IntelliJ.