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 Now available: Golo 0-preview4

Golo 0-preview4 is now available!

You might ask why the previous release was 0-preview2 while we directly announce 0-preview3…

Well, the embarassing story is that a Git merge of an upstream branch had been forgotten while the Maven artifacts had already been released, meaning that there was no way back. Mistakes happen, hence we have the rare chance of having 2 successive releases in a single day!

What’s new in Golo?

• Golo now provides null-safe operators.
• Multi-line strings can now be defined. They are delimited between """.
• Local functions can now be called from augmentations from the same module.
• JVM arrays can now be manipulated as objects with methods such as get(index) or length() instead of predefined functions (e.g., aget(array, index) and alength(array)).
• JVM arrays now work in foreach loops, because they provide an iterator() method.
• The compiler no longer blocks on non-terminated source code. (woops)
• Some refactorings in the standard augmentations, including a join() method on lists contributed by Daniel Pétisme.
• Closures with a variable number of arguments were broken when context was captured.
• Philippe Charrière contributed a new readln function.
• …and many small fixes there and there.

We are particularly proud to have 3 new contributors: Dan Allen, Daniel Petisme and our famous developer advocate Philippe Charrière!

In the community

• The Golo Netbeans plugin developed by David Festal at Serli is now available directly from Netbeans.
• The Eclipse tooling by Jeff Maury is making good progress, see the forum discussion.

Links

• Try Golo on Google AppEngine
• Download a preview release of Golo
• Read the Golo programming language guide
• Fork the project on GitHub