Build 1.0.62
Posted by brian 24 Feb 2012New build is posted and online docs updated.
Build 1.0.60
Posted by brian 1 Sep 2011The latest build has been posted for download and online docs updated.
Fantom vs Kotlin (and other JVM langs)
Posted by brian 20 Jul 2011I think when a new language like Kotlin is announced, every one's first thought is how is this different than X. In our case how is it different from Fantom?
Build 1.0.59
Posted by brian 2 Jun 2011Its been a few months and we were due - I have posted a new build and updated online docs.
Pod Repo Design
Posted by brian 29 Apr 2011This post lays out the proposed design for centralized online pod repositories including:
The Name List
Posted by brian 14 Apr 2011How many times have you sat around trying to think of a good name for a class or concept in your software? Good names are concise and unique across the system. But lets face it, coming up with names really sucks. So over the years I've been collecting a list of words to spark my imagine (often leading me to thesaurus.com for further refinement). I've been scribbling this list on a tattered sheet of paper. But now I am going to start maintaining the list on this page and share it with everybody! The names in no particular order:
User Defined Generics
Posted by brian 3 Mar 2011Fantom has parameterized type support for List, Map, and Func (which interestingly means we have a great deal of compiler and runtime infrastructure for a generics type system). But we've never take the steps to turn this into a full blown generics system that any developer can use in their APIs. The omission of user defined generics is a re-occurring issue, most recently discussed ticket in #1393 and also some interesting discussion on Cedrics blog.
Build 1.0.56
Posted by brian 11 Nov 2010I have posted the new 1.0.56 build and updated the online docs.
Build 1.0.55
Posted by brian 13 Sep 2010Latest and greatest is published and the online docs have been updated!
Fantom DateTime APIs
Posted by brian 9 Sep 2010Pretty much any modern programming language has built-in support for basic concepts such as numbers, strings, and collections. In my opinion, representations of dates and times should be included among these foundational data types. They are part of the core XML Schema data types and also in most database systems. And for good reason, because every non-trivial application deals with time in some manner.
Build 1.0.54
Posted by brian 14 Jul 2010I noticed its been two months since we did a fresh build. So I posted a new build and updated the online docs.
Fantom's History and Future with JavaScript
Posted by andy 2 Jun 2010One of Fantom's primary design goals from day one was portability between the JVM and CLR. Naturally we got to thinking, if we can run on both of the popular VM's, why not on JavaScript too? That would enable enormous opportunities for code reuse and greatly simplify the huge impedance mismatch of developing backend server code and user interfaces in the browser.