With the SmartMS release a deal has also been concluded between Creative IT and Optimale Systemer AS, to safeguard their investments and ensure future evolutions, the JavaScript CodeGen portion of DWScript will no longer be developed as open-source, but will be exclusive to Optimale Systemer AS. Sales permitting, this should allow to dedicate more time to improving JavaScript code generation, optimizations and debugging support 🙂
Support for partial classes has been added to DWScript: they can be declared as “class partial (TAncestor)” as well as with the Oxygene syntax “partial class (TAncestor)” syntax.
When “record with methods” were introduced, an important feature was overlooked: mutability.
This article discusses the problem, and introduces a possible syntax extension to solve it. Ideas & comments welcome!
In the SVN version, DWScript now has experimental support for helpers. This is a generalization of Delphi’s class helpers, which can be applied to (almost) any type. You can also have multiple helpers per type.
Here is a summary of the changes of recent happenings in the SVN.
Note that this list doesn’t include the very latest changes and features, which will get an article of their own.