roadmap v3.1

Overview

The release of Eclipse Golo 3.1.0 is planned for March 21st 2016.

This release marks the exit of the Eclipse incubator, and Golo is now a mature Eclipse Technology Project.

Milestones

We adopt a 8 weeks fixed schedule between milestones. The planning of milestones is organic.

The number of milestones before the completion of Golo 3.1.0 is yet to be determined.

3.1.0-incubation-M1 (2016/01/14)

• The new gololang.Errors modules provides functional error handling capabilities.
• An issue with named parameters and directly-called anonymous function references has been fixed.
• Duplicate struct and union types are now being detected as compilation errors.
• The orIfNull operator was incorrectly eager, it has now been made lazy.
• Overloaded instance methods from Java APIs are now supported, with proper call site invalidation. This augments the Golo to Java inter-operability.
• The runtime support for instance methods resolution has been refactored.
• A rare variable arguments matching issue has been fixed.
• Augmentations are now also resolved based on the call stack, so that a calling module also offers its visible augmentations as a fallback.
• Operator call sites now use an exception-based invalidation mechanism rather that a guard-based one.
• Structures are now comparable.
• Issues when mixing module state and closure state have been addressed.
• A new console ANSI codes module is part of the standard API.
• Custom factory functions can now be defined for structures.
• Implicit modules are now imported after the explicit ones.
• The compiler intermediate representation API has been refactored.

3.1.0-M2 (2016/03/02)

We remove the -incubation tag in the version number. Only the distribution archive file name will exhibit the -incubation tag.

• Property-style methods support.
• The Golo documentation now embeds highlight.js to properly color Golo code snippets.
• The golo compile command can now directly output to a JAR archive.
• The Predefined.fun function has been improved for variable-arity resolutions as well as supporting resolution from current imports.
• The new gololang.Functions module provides functions, higher order functions and decorators to support well-known idioms of functional programming.
• New syntax to specify arity in function literals.
• Docker image fixes.
• Misc. bugs have been resolved.