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 Golo news roundup #3

Changes in Golo

• We released Golo 0-preview2 last week. It includes bug fixes.

• Notable changes in 0-preview2 include the new orIfNull and ?: (“elvis”) operators to ease writing null-safe code.

• GitHub issues have been filled with ideas tagged backlog to keep track of interesting enhancements and features. We invite potential contributors to have a look, as their help is welcome! Don’t worry about hacking Golo, it is easier than you think and we can mentor you.

• Dealing with Java / JVM arrays from Golo is a pain. There is an open pull-request that adds methods to arrays, which hopefuly makes it easier to deal with them. In particular, the iterator() method allows arrays to be seamlessly used with foreach loops, too.

• Thierry Chantier reported problems to call methods from Java libraries that took a primitive boolean as a parameter. Wooops!

In the community

• Marcin Erdmann just released the first version of the Golo Gradle plugin. The plugin is part of the Golo organization on GitHub, and binaries are being pushed under the org.golo-lang group to Maven Central. Enjoy, and congratulate Marcin for his work!

• Jeff Maury has started work for the Golo Language Development Tools in Eclipse. Do not hesitate to give it a try and give Jeff feedback!

• Some recent geek things by our mad Golo Developer Advocate Philippe Charrière:
  • he updated the IntelliJ syntax highlighting and SublimeText support,
  • he created kgolo,
  • he is busy preparing a lightning talk at Mix-IT 2013.

• Thierry Chantier published a few blog posts on how he has fun switching lights on and off from a RaspberryPi… and Golo

• Romain Lespinasse has updated his Golo on OS X project.

• Daniel Petisme has started testing ideas with a set of standard augmentations for Golo, including collections and testability. Check out his GoloSA project and give him feedback! He also opened a pull-request for adding join() to lists which is pending acceptance of our contributor license agreement.

That’s all folks!