Roadmap

1.0 release

not released yet.

• New IDE (Helios)
• Stepping debugger
• Fully commented classes across all Amber codebase
• New package framework and commit strategies
• ObjectSpaces
• SPEC?
• Remote debugger and IDE? (for example working on top of nodejs)

0.13.0 release

not released yet.

• Helios IDE, release candidate
• amber-base (npm packages for node.js (and for browser?), bower package for browser)
• amber-sdk : IDEs and development tools (grunt, cli)
• create template project feature
• compiler enhancements
  • get libraries from different locations
  • recompile the whole package command

0.12.1 release, 14. November 2013

• fix an issue in Helios which prevents class definitions from being compiled

0.12.0 release, 12. November 2013

• Helios IDE, beta version
• Use of require [1] to load amber packages in the browser
• Restructuring of boot.js, use of the brickz[2] reconfigurable micro composition system
• Use bower for browser-side dependencies
• Enhanced REPL
• Enhanced comandline compiler

[1] http://requirejs.org/ [2] https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/brikz

0.11.0 release, July 2013

• bug fixes
• CLI improvements
• compiler improvements regarding message send optimisations and super sends
• preview of the next IDE, named Helios
• Amber now also uses a CI server https://travis-ci.org/amber-smalltalk/amber
• Grunt.js based build system updated to version 0.4.x

0.10.0 release

• New compiler toolchain
  • Modular
  • Semantic analysis
  • IR representation
  • Better inlining
• More class comments in Kernel
• Async unit tests
• Grunt.js base build system instead of Makefiles

0.9 release

• Parser & compiler

  • Allow underscores in method names
  • Dynamic arrays support
  • Dynamic dictionaries support #{'a' -> 1. 'b' -> 2}

• More Unit tests for Kernel

• Class comments for core classes

• ProfStef ported from Pharo

• IDE

  • Working debugger
  • workspace in the inspector

• Website

  • ProfStef lessons
  • new design & name