Now available: Eclipse Golo 3.1.0
It is a great pleasure for us to announce both the release of Eclipse Golo 3.1.0 and the graduation of the project from the Eclipse incubator. This means that Golo is now a mature Eclipse Technology Project!
Many, many, many thanks to everyone who has contributed to Golo!
What’s new
Here is a quick recap of the 2 milestones that led to this release.
3.1.0-incubation-M1 (2016/01/14)
- The new
gololang.Errorsmodules provides functional error handling capabilities. - An issue with named parameters and directly-called anonymous function references has been fixed.
- Duplicate
structanduniontypes are now being detected as compilation errors. - The
orIfNulloperator 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.
3.1.0-M2 (2016/03/02)
- Property-style methods support.
- The Golo documentation now embeds highlight.js to properly color Golo code snippets.
- The
golo compilecommand can now directly output to a JAR archive. - The
Predefined.funfunction has been improved for variable-arity resolutions as well as supporting resolution from current imports. - The new
gololang.Functionsmodule provides functions, higher order functions and decorators to support well-known idioms of functional programming. - New syntax to specify arity in function literals.
- Docker image fixes.
- Misc. bugs have been resolved.
