Coming beginning of January, 2008

Well, looks like its been awhile since our last post. The Milescript team has been working overtime to finish the alpha version of the compiler and address many of the issues brought up by the community after our pre-alpha release. We are on schedule to have these updates ready for the beginning of January, 2008. Here is a brief list of what to expect...

• Eclipse Plugin ( this is in alpha, advanced features like refactoring will take more time )
• Unit Testing framework ( utilizing the CrossCheck open-source project )
• Generated Documentation ( similar to Javadoc, advanced features will take more time )
• Name Condensation, reduces the size of generated code significantly
• Dynamic Linking of Milescript Libraries
• Exported Methods and Attributes, allows Milescript code to be called from JavaScript
• LibExt - allows type-checked Ext 2.0 to be used in Milescript, but adds nothing to generated code ( pending approval from the Ext Team )
• Elements from ECMAScript 4, such as Record and Union types for use with External Classes
• More demos and tutorials

Also, the Milescript 1.0 Specification is now finalized. Any further changes to the language syntax will be included in future versions of Milescript and will maintain backwards compatibility with Milescript 1.0.

Now that the core toolset is nearing completion and the first version of the language is finalized, we will be making more frequent updates to the Milescript Google Group and this web site.