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 Golo news roundup #5

What’s new in Golo?

• We released 0-preview4 mid-May.

• The DynaMid members are busy writing research papers, including one on Golo, hence the slower development over the last 2 weeks. Be sure that we will get back to more commit frenzy as soon as we can!

• Julien Ponge has in-development branches in his repository:

  1. wip/golodoc aims at providing support for documentation in Golo source code, in Markdown, and

  2. wip/dynamic-evaluation is experimenting with dynamic code evaluation.

In the community

• Daniel Petisme forked Groovy’s GVM to support Golo. This opened interesting discussions between the authors of GVM and jEnv, and they may collaborate to provide a common solution for the JVM runtimes and languages, which would be just awesome!

• Philippe Charrière will do a Golo talk at the Montpellier JUG.

Looking for ways to contribute?

We are always looking for community contributions!

A good way to start is to browse the open issues.

Among those issues, there are 3 of them that may be easy if you are new to Golo.

1. Reworking the command-line interface to support subcommands just like Git or Ceylon.

2. Supporting underscores in number literals is a simple parser work.

3. Sylvain Desgrais opened a pull request a while back for supporting native code in Golo a while back. You could help Sylvain as the feature is interesting but not finished yet.

Until next time, have fun with Golo and let us know the kind of fun things you are doing with it!