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• Upgrade to Go 1.9
• Support splat arguments
• Add dup and splat_array instructions
• Restrict parameters define order: normal arg > optioned arg > splat arg (last)
• Suspend using duplicated parameter name when defining methods - by @shuheiktgw
• Refactor lexer to better support string escaping - by @Maxwell-Alexius
• Fix REPL's display issue on Windows OS - by @mattn

Full features for version 0.1.0

Special Features

• Plugin system
  • Allows to use Go libraries (packages) dynamically
  • Allows to call Go's methods from Goby directly (only on Linux for now)
• Builtin multi-threaded server and DB library
• REPL (run goby -i)

Normal Language Features

• Everything is object
• Object and Class
  • Top level main object
  • Constructor
  • Class/instance method
  • Class
    • Inheritance
    • Singleton class is now supported
  • self
• Module
  • #include
  • #extend
  • :: for namespace
• Variable: starts with lowercase letter like 'var`
  • Local variable
  • Instance variable
• Constant
  • Starts with uppercase like Var or VAR
  • global if defined on top-level
  • not reentrant
  • (special variables with $ are unsupported)
• Methods
  • Evaluation with arguments
  • Evaluation without arguments
  • Evaluation with block (closure)
  • Defining singleton method
• Block
  • do - end
• Flow control
  • if, else, elsif
  • while
• IO
  • #puts
  • ARGV
• Import files
  • require (Just for standard libraries by now)
  • require_relative
• Thread (not a class!)
  • Goroutine-based thread method to create a new thread
  • Works with Channel class for passing objects between threads, like chan in Go
  • See this sample: One thousand threads

• Added REPL
• Largely refactored vm
• Fixed some compiler bugs
• Removed compile feature
• Added Range class
• Ported more API to built in types

• Add Net::SimpleServer as built in server
• Support thread method to create new thread
• Add Channel for passing objects between threads

Added some standard libraries like:

• URI
• Net::HTTP
• Net::SimpleServer
• File

Also improved VM's design and fixed some syntax issues.

An update

This is the first release of this language.