Roadmap

The roadmap below is of course subject to change, but these are the milestones I would like to target.

v0.x

• basic object literals
  • block-based objects
    • type - type {}
    • lambda - => {}
    • overload - -> {}
  • number
    • integer - 42
    • decimal - 4.2
    • rational - 2 / 3
    • imaginary numbers are accessed with the i property on any real number
    • complex - 42 + 3.i
  • character - `a
  • string - :symbol, 'single quoted', "double quoted #{with_interpolation}"
  • heredoc (with interpolation, same as double quoted string)
  • regular expression - /regular expression #{also_with_interpolation}/
  • list - [1, 2, 3]
    • type-restricted list - [1, 2, 3]<System.Integer>
  • map - { :a : 1, lambda() : 5 }
    • type-restricted map - { :a : 1, lambda() : 5 }<System.Object, System.Integer>
  • key-value - :key : :value
  • range - 1..5 or 1...10 (two dots mean inclusive range. three dots mean range end is excluded. 1..9 is essentially the same as 1...10)
  • date - 2012-02-12 (date, time and datetime literals are always UTC. time and datetime can have an optional +/- timezone offset in hours)
  • time - 00:24:00.0329+0400 (with optional fractional seconds and timezone offset)
  • datetime - 2012-02-12T00:24:00 (literal date and time separated by a capital T)
• module loaders
  • file - Modules are loaded relative to the module doing the requiring. Absolute paths are also allowed
  • package - Package load path is built from source directory plus vendor source directories
  • url - Just like the file loader, but with full URLs. :)
• type restrictions for type, lambda, list, map, key-value (similar syntax to C# generics)
  • range is implicitly type restricted
• lambda overloads

# lambda (`foo`) with two overloads
#   the second overload takes a single parameter (`a`)
foo = => {
	-> {}
	-> (a) {}
}

• pattern matching

match (anwer) {
	when (42) {}
	else      {}
}

v1.0

In addition to everything above working (and working well), the following items need to be accounted for before the official first release.

• Standard libraries will be useful enough to build real, production systems with without re-inventing all the wheels.
• This website will look good, be informative and have tutorials, downloads for all supported platforms and links to external resources (such as integration packs for various editors).
• The documentation section of the website will cover at least most of the standard library.

v1.x

• SQL keyword support - Syntactical sugar for SQL-like keywords that operate on any kind of collection. Collections will already be lazy-iterated; this only adds keyword support the API already in place.
• distributed package repository - A website to make finding third-party packages easy. The actual packages will be distributed; only package meta-data will be in the registry.
• unit object literals (à la CSS)
• version - v0.1.3 (as in SemVer - need to evaluate usefulness)

v2.0

• concurrency/parallelism/asynchronicy (may need to be addressed sooner)