What's over the horizon?

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Sat Apr 7 09:34:38 UTC 2007


- better package system (resources, comments...)
- fast binary format for package
- better tools
- new UI framework	
- better font rendering
- small kernel
- native widget?
- better FFI
- more tests

On 2 avr. 07, at 05:28, tim Rowledge wrote:

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> On 1-Apr-07, at 8:14 PM, Jerome Peace wrote:
>
>> What's over the horizon?
>
> New VM. New image.
> Fixed compiled method format.
> Proper source accessors.
> Decent change recording.
> Immutable objects.
> Little-endian bitmaps instead of 'nobody uses big endian anymore'  
> current format. Probably same for Floats.
> Get rid of MVC. Replace morphic with something actually
> a) designed
> b) documented
> c) using hardware on most platforms to do fonts and most drawing  
> with vectors instead of pixmaps.
> Replace current tragically poor browser code with properly written  
> classes.
> Thousands upon thousands of tests, with comments and explanations.
>
> Give me ten million euros.
>
> tim
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