PLNews: Programming Language News

Lua 5.2.0 (work2) has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Objective Caml 3.11.2 has been released. Objective Caml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release includes bug fixes.

haXe 2.05 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: additional optimizations, the ignoring of a #! line at the beginning of hx files, bug fixes, and other changes.

Gambit-C v4.6.0 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

Shed Skin 0.3 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler that emits C++ code.

This release includes: support for the 'itertools', 'heapq' and 'csv' modules; new example and test programs; improved type inference scalability; support for 'map', 'filter' and 'reduce'; support for the 'with' statement; optimizations; bug fixes; and other changes.

Python 2.5.5 Release Candidate 1 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

This release includes security fixes.

Python 2.7 alpha 2 has been released. Python is a portable, dynamic, object-oriented language.

efene 0.1 has been released. It aims to provide an alternate syntax to Erlang, for people coming from C-like languages.

The January 13, 2010 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Python community.

TinyCOBOL 0.65 has been released. TinyCOBOL is an open source COBOL 85 compiler.

This release includes: file IO changes, run-time changes, the use of VB-ISAM version 2 for indexed files, and other changes.

BBC BASIC for Windows 5.91a has been released. It is a BBC BASIC implementation for Windows systems.

This release includes: 'INSTALL' that checks to see if the library is already loaded, support for temporarily restoring the default error handling, support for restoring local variables and formal parameters, 'TRACE STEP ON' and 'TRACE STEP OFF' support, new libaries and example programs, and other changes.

Free Pascal 2.4.0 has been released. Free Pascal is a portable, open source Pascal and Object Pascal compiler.

This release includes: support for Mac OS X on PPC64, x86-64 and ARM; support for Haiku on x86; support for Delphi-style resource handling; whole-program optimization infrastructure; compiler performance improvements; improved CPU register allocation; RTL improvements; bug fixes; improvements to the XML and databse units; and other cahnges.

The December 8 to 15, 2009, December 15 to 22, 2009, December 22 to 29, 2009, December 29, 2009 to January 5, 2010, January 5 to 12, 2010, and January 12 to 19, 2010 editions of the Caml Weekly News are now available. They summarise recent developments and discussion within the OCaml community.

Boo 0.9.3 has been released. Boo is a statically-typed, object-oriented language with a Python-inspired syntax for the .NET CLR.

This release includes: bug fixes, match macro support for regular expressions with variable binding, and other changes.

Groovy 1.7 has been released. Groovy is a dynamic, object-oriented language for the Java Platform.

This release includes: support for anonymous inner classes and nested classes, support for annotations, more powerful assertions, AST transformation improvements, and other changes.

The December 19, 2009, January 10, 2010, and January 17, 2010 editions of the Haskell Weekly News are now available. They summarise recent developments within the Haskell community.

Rakudo Perl #24 has been released. Rakudo is a Perl 6 implementation for Parrot.

This release includes: support for passing 86.1% of the available spectest test suite, improvements to the Rat type and related math functions, and other changes.

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.12.1 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: improved support for parallel execution, dynamic linking support on Linux, Unicode-aware I/O libraries, package system improvements, and other changes.

GNU Guile 1.9.7 has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: a '#:version' field for Guile modules, support for renaming bindings on module export, profiling and tracing of functions at the REPL, a new debugger, the new 'truncated-print' function, the implementation of SRFI-4 vectors using bytevectors, improved Unicode support, performance improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU Guile 1.9.6 has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: a new implementation of 'primitive-eval', Daniel Kraft's Emacs Lisp compiler, faster SRFI-9 record access, support for interrupts in tail loops, support for tail patterns, support for applicable structs, the new 'define!' procedure, and other changes.

The What's new in Haskell? December 2009 edition of The Haskell Web News is now available. It summarises Haskell developments during the past month, sorted by ranking as determined by Haskell :: Reddit.

ChaiScript 2.3.1 has been released. It is an embeddable scripting language inspired by ECMAScript.

This release includes MinGW and VS2008 compilation fixes.

Qore 0.7.7 has been released. Qore is a weakly-typed, multithreaded scripting language offering procedural and object-oriented capabilities, and SQL integration.

This release includes bug fixes.

EiffelStudio 6.5.8.1777 has been released. EiffelStudio is a cross-platform Eiffel implementation and development environment.

This is the final EiffelStudio 6.5 release. It includes regression fixes.

RetroForth 10.3 has been released. RetroForth is a free, portable Forth implementation.

This release includes: a Go language implementation of the VM, support for saving images in the browser-based VM, support for additional words, and more.