Eclipse Golo 3.2.0 Release Review

Type: 
Release
State: 
Successful
End Date of the Review Period: 

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Project: 
Eclipse Golo
Release: 

3.2.0

Description: 

Improvements have been made to the language, including BigInteger / BitDecimal literals, support for JVM primitive type references, multiple imports, relative imports, dynamic objects from JSON text and more.

The tooling has received many efforts, including better command-line interfaces, better documentation generation, localization of the compiler messages, etc.

More generally the code base quality has been a strong focus with many fixes.

New & Noteworthy URL: 
New and Noteworthy
Communities: 

We received good press and social media coverage:

  • https://jaxenter.com/pirates-of-jvm-golo-interview-132561.html
  • https://jaxenter.com/pirates-of-the-jvm-the-infographic-132524.html
  • https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/october/article2.php
  • https://speakerdeck.com/k33g/golo-the-tiny-language-that-gives-super-powers-1
  • https://twitter.com/clementplop/status/867647425183444992 (Eclipse Vert.x + Eclipse Golo)
  • https://twitter.com/ArnaudEsteve/status/849560054722437120 (Devoxx France - Vert.x + Golo)
  • https://twitter.com/nicolas_frankel/status/844948019451703297
  • http://www.infoworld.com/article/3124760/java/simple-jvm-friendly-golo-may-aid-iot-developers.html#tk.twt_ifw
  • https://github.com/showcases/programming-languages
  • (... and many more)