Latest and greatest has been posted and online docs updated.
The last build 1.0.51 introduced some major changes to facets, environments, and pod meta-data. We've been heavily using 51 for our SkyFoundry work the past month or two, and those new designs look really solid. The most notable thing about this build is that its a relatively stable upgrade (just a couple API tweaks). Not sure how the script design #1014 will end up, but I think what is clear is that it probably won't introduce any major breaking changes. I'm pretty happy with the current state of Fantom, and I'm not expecting any more fundamental design changes - just tweaks to the APIs and some of the tickets already proposed.
Couple language features to note:
List/Map literals used in a field initializer can infer their type from the field declaration - #986
Can defer definite assignment of non-nullable fields to runtime - #832
Objects can validate post-deserialization using it-block constructor - #1036
Lots of API improvements and a couple big new APIs:
New concurrent pod with atomic APIs
New CSV input/output streams in util
Date/Time fromLocale APIs
Note a couple of minor breaking changes in the change log.
Change Log
Build 1.0.52 (24 Mar 10)
Color: makeArgb, makeRgb
WebUtil.jsMain
Win: viewport, reload, onEvent
Elem: deprecate x,y,w,h; add pos, size, bounds
New concurrent pod
SqlService.lastAutoKey => Statement.execute
Tweak grammar to disallow chaining comparison operators
Change config API for FileLogger and LogMod to allow datetime pattern
Date/Time fromLocale - parsing with pattern
Default all ext2mime.props to assume charset=utf-8
brian Wed 24 Mar 2010
Latest and greatest has been posted and online docs updated.
The last build 1.0.51 introduced some major changes to facets, environments, and pod meta-data. We've been heavily using 51 for our SkyFoundry work the past month or two, and those new designs look really solid. The most notable thing about this build is that its a relatively stable upgrade (just a couple API tweaks). Not sure how the script design #1014 will end up, but I think what is clear is that it probably won't introduce any major breaking changes. I'm pretty happy with the current state of Fantom, and I'm not expecting any more fundamental design changes - just tweaks to the APIs and some of the tickets already proposed.
Couple language features to note:
Lots of API improvements and a couple big new APIs:
Note a couple of minor breaking changes in the change log.
Change Log
Build 1.0.52 (24 Mar 10)
tactics Wed 24 Mar 2010
Excellent.
andy Wed 24 Mar 2010
Minor issue in this build that breaks JavaScript - see fix changeset
brian Wed 24 Mar 2010
I uploaded a new version of the build with Andy's fix (if you already downloaded it you can re-download or just apply the fix from hg)