Congratulations for the great work! I would be glad to see a 1.0 release, if anything just for psychological reasons when I show Factor to my colleagues :-)
Are there any plans to move the distribution to a model with a core + a package manager? I think at this point it would benefit the community if there was an official way to provide new libraries without being involved in the core. Package managers for image-based languages are slightly delicate, but I think the model used by Monticello+Metacello in the Smallatlk community works pretty well. Best, Andrea 2014-11-03 13:27 GMT+01:00 John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>: > We've been brainstorming a few things. Not sure how much of it will be done > and in what order, but some of the features I'd like us to work on: > > - new parser to allow parsing cross-platform vocabularies without loading > them and development of useful refactoring tools > > - improve compiler for performance of fixnums, loops, and generic dispatch, > possibly leveraging LLVM > > - faster namespace variables (which are used in a lot of places) using a > different lookup algorithm > > - unification of core and basis to allow using higher level language features > earlier in the bootstrap process > > And more vocabularies and libraries, etc. Plus we love contributions so if > anyone else has some ideas here, we'd love to hear. > > Best, > John. > > >> On Nov 3, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hurra! >> >> Any plans for 0.98 or, dare I say it, 1.0? Factor feels like a very >> solid language to me and it's just lacking in polish. >> >> >> -- >> mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
