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 Golo news roundup #4

What’s new in Golo?

• JVM arrays (think Object[]) can now be manipulated as objects. We provide methods that make them look like normal objects: get, set, length, equals, toString, and… iterator(). This means that you can now uniformly iterate over an array with a foreach, just like you would do for a java.util collection. Don’t you find it nicer than calling array-specific functions such as aget, aset, alength?

• A bunch of fixes made it to the Git master branch. boolean arguments of Java code would not be handled (woops!). We also changed the closure generated methods parameters ordering, so that closures with a variable arity can now properly capture their context. If this sounds a bit too technical then don’t worry: it just means that we fixed a stupid bug.

• Daniel Petisme joins as a contributor, and his first pull-request made it into the code base: he added a join augmentation to java.util.List.

• The JNI / JNA investigations are making progress on the pull request opened by Sylvain Desgrais. Why not join the discussion? We want your feedback!

In the community

• We now have a #golo-lang IRC channel on FreeNode. Feel-free to hang out over here!

• The awesome Ninja Squad provided us with stickers for maximal viral marketing.

• Thierry Chantier wrote about his Golo HTTP server experiments. Simple stuff works!

• As usual, we have several items from Philippe Charrière:

  • he experimented with dynamic proxies: https://github.com/k33g/DynoGolo
  • he opened a new GitHub repository for his Fast web framework: https://github.com/k33g/Fast20
  • he gave a lightning talk at Mix-IT 2013: slides (in French)

Off next week!

The Golo main developer is on vacations next week, so expect less to happen on the development front.

See you soon!