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 Now available: Golo 3.1.0 milestone 1

Happy new year everyone!

Here is the first milestone of Golo 3.1.0, and we have great changes to share with you.

What’s new?

• The new gololang.Errors modules provides functional error handling capabilities.
• An issue with named parameters and directly-called anonymous function references has been fixed.
• Duplicate struct and union types are now being detected as compilation errors.
• The orIfNull operator was incorrectly eager, it has now been made lazy.
• Overloaded instance methods from Java APIs are now supported, with proper call site invalidation. This augments the Golo to Java inter-operability.
• The runtime support for instance methods resolution has been refactored.
• A rare variable arguments matching issue has been fixed.
• Augmentations are now also resolved based on the call stack, so that a calling module also offers its visible augmentations as a fallback.
• Operator call sites now use an exception-based invalidation mechanism rather that a guard-based one.
• Structures are now comparable.
• Issues when mixing module state and closure state have been addressed.
• A new console ANSI codes module is part of the standard API.
• Custom factory functions can now be defined for structures.
• Implicit modules are now imported after the explicit ones.
• The compiler intermediate representation API has been refactored.

Links

• Download Golo 3.1.0-incubation-M1
• Read the Golo programming language guide
• Star / fork the project on GitHub
• Get in touch on our mailing-list