ROADMAP.md

Roadmap with big features. For a list of all features and fixes, check out the changelog.

[Version 0.3]

• gc option
• channels
• lock{}
• thread safe arrays
• rune type
• replace ustring with []rune
• fix byte.str()
• maps with non-string keys
• iOS/Android support
• parallel cgen
• IO streams
• struct embedding
• interface embedding
• interfaces: allow struct fields (not just methods)
• short generics syntax (foo(5) instead of foo<int>(5))
• more advanced errors, not just error('message')

[Version 0.4]

• Coroutines
• vfmt: add missing imports (like goimports)
• Recursive structs via options: struct Node { next ?Node }
• First class Option type
• Optional function struct fields
• Handle function pointers safely, remove if function == 0 {
• Bundle OpenSSL like GC
• Anonymous structs
• Improve vweb: allow separation of logic via "controllers", lots of other fixes
• New VPM site

[Version 0.5]

• Parallel parser (not integrated yet)
• Parallel checker (not integrated yet)
• Parallel C compilation (not integrated yet)
• Improved vweb => veb framework. Separation of global and context (request local) fields. Performance and stability. Based on picoev.
• -skip-unused on by default
• 64/32 bit int depending on arch (will remove array.len limitation on 64 bit systems)
• copy() builtin function (e.g. for easier conversion from []Foo to [4]Foo)
• Lambdas: a.sort(|a, b| a > b)
• Custom attributes
• Contexts that are passed implicitly (e.g. for custom allocation/memory management)
• Implicit Veb contexts passed to requests
• Direct C/C++ interop without generating wrappers (via -experimental for now)
• Make ORM work without installing developer libs (libpq-dev etc)

[Version 0.6]

• Integrate the new parallel parser/checker/cc
• Incremental compilation
• Runtime race detector
• Thread safe maps
• recover() from panics
• -usecache on by default
• ORM migrations
• Allow $if everywhere: top level, inside struct definitions, etc

[Version 1.0]

• Cross compilation of C
• Big remaining bugs fixed
• More powerful comptime
• Constraints for generics
• Coroutines on Windows
• Autofree memory management option ready for production
• C2V supporting entire C99 standard
• Shared compiled libs

Tooling

• More stable VLS
• Profiler improvements
  • Basic interactive shell with search, sort, filter, etc.
• VPM
  • New VPM site
  • Package versioning
• A better documentation platform

Web

• Site that brings everything together in a single style
• Interactive educational platform (learning to program for beginners)