Ahmad: Thanks for your interest. Let me clear up what's old vs new, and then answer your question.
1. The mercurial repository is for the research version of BitC. That's no longer being touched. Current work is happening (very slowly) in the GIT repositiory, and is based on a completely new code base. 2. The website, at the moment, still *mostly* reflects that version, and isn't getting much (if any) attention. I haven't had time to deal with it, and the old web site probably isn't a good starting point for the new one. Yes, the "Retrospective Thoughts" page is kind of significant, but a lot of the issues it raised have since been solved. Walking away from the project for a while let me come back and see a couple of things with new eyes. Also, I kept looking at the world and not finding anything that did what I wanted, which drove me back to working on this. So to answer your questions: Is BitC being maintained? No. The only version of BitC that was functional was the research version. That was a learning vehicle, and one of the things that we learned is that that version of the language had some real limitations. I sometimes refer to that version at BitC v0. The research compiler it not being maintained and is not usable. It has *many* limitations. However: I am very slowly making progress on a ground-up restart. This is why you are seeing current activity on the mailing list. The new version is a spare time effort, and it keeps getting interrupted by various things, but it's happening. Perhaps glacially rather than slowly. I'm hopeful that there will be a significant improvement in the level of attention that I am able to give it fairly soon, but I can't say much about that. Jonathan
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