It was a year ago in April that we had the first public release of Fan. Looking back over the last twelve months, there really has been a pretty amazing amount of progress. We've add lots of subsystems and language goodies:

The first six months:

• Decimal numbers link
• This return types link
• With-block support for collections link
• Well known services link
• Fan submission for WideFinder link
• New email API for MIME and SMTP handling link
• The fwt API started from scratch to now almost complete link
• Flux browser/editor built from scratch using fwt link
• The isnot operator link
• Null convenience operators link
• Improved construction call syntax link
• New type and slot literal syntax link
• Auto-casting link
• Improved multi-line string literals link
• New uri naming framework link
• Support for using statements in serialization link
• Redesigned webapp widgets link
• Upgrades of fandev.org to support email, feeds, previews, blogging link
• Public mercurial repository link
• Nullable types link
• Refactor Java runtime to use java.lang classes link

Last six months:

• Java runtime now uses primitives for performance link
• XML API link
• Java FFI link
• New sys::Date and sys::Time APIs
• New sys::Unit API
• Expr based returns
• Const overrides link
• Fan to JavaScript compiler link
• New Actor framework link
• It-blocks link
• Support for Tickets in Sidewalk link
• Tons of new APIs
• Andy and I started SkyFoundry where we are building our entire infrastructure using Fan (and it is really cool stuff)
• Fledgeling Fan support for IDE (critical for success)

The ability to compile Fan to JavaScript is a really compelling addition to Fan's portability story. That might end up becoming more important than JVM/CLR portability.