With the end of the world in a few days, it’s time to flush the what’s new log for DWScript.
There are two major items that will be discussed in future posts:
Also the old Indy-based webserver demo is being replaced by one based on Synopse high-performance http server classes.
Recently stumbled upon node-webkit, an open-source from Intel Open Source Technology Center, which is deliciously “simple”: combine a standalone webkit (Chromium) build and node.js into a runtime.
Webkit/Chromium brings a high-performance HTML5 environment with JavaScript JITting compiler, WebGL, Audio, hardware accelerated Canvas, camera access, etc.
DWScript now has a new “unit namespace” feature, which aims at killing several birds with one stone:
Now for a bit of hypothetical polling! thinking on the generics/templates syntax, one can’t quite shake the feeling Delphi got the C#/C++ generics/templates syntax. The < and > can’t be read out loud, and just look like an out of place reuse of the comparison symbols.
Latest DWScript SVN introduces support a new “for var” syntax extension for loops.
It combines the loop with the loop variable declaration (type-inferred), while scoping the variable to the loop.
The syntax of “for to/downto” loops is thus extended to: