Thanks for the amazing work! I’m really excited to be able to finally point
people to all the new stuff without having to have them start building from
source. I think this’ll be a really great way to re-kindle interest in the
language.
I linked to your post on lobster.rs, by the way, with the hope that there might
be some good discussion there. I’m pretty optimistic.
> On Jul 31, 2018, at 1:11 PM, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun." - Nina
> Dobrev
>
> I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.98! You can
> find download links on the Factor website:
>
> http://factorcode.org <http://factorcode.org/>
>
> This release is brought to you with almost 4,300 commits by the following
> individuals:
>
> Alexander Iljin, Arkady Rost, Benjamin Pollack, Björn Lindqvist, Cat
> Stevens,
> Chris Double, Dimage Sapelkin, Doug Coleman, Friedrich von Never,
> John Benediktsson, Jon Harper, Mark Green, Mark Sweeney, Nicolas Pénet,
> Philip Dexter, Robert Vollmert, Samuel Tardieu, Sankaranarayanan
> Viswanathan,
> Shane Pelletier, @catb0t, @hyphz, @thron7, @xzenf
>
> Besides several years of bug fixes and library improvements, I want to
> highlight the following changes:
>
> * Improved user interface with light and dark themes and new icons
> * Fix GTK library issue affecting some Linux installations
> * Support Cocoa TouchBar on MacOS
> * Factor REPL version banner includes build information.
> * Bindings for ForestDB
> * New graphical demos including Minesweeper, Game of Life, Bubble Chamber,
> etc.
> * Better handling of "out of memory" errors
> * Improved VM and compiler documentation, test fixtures, and bug fixes
> * Much faster Heaps and Heapsort
> * Support for Adobe Brackets, CotEditor, and Microsoft Visual Studio Code
> editors
> * On Mac OS X, allow use of symlinks to factor binary
> * Lots of improvements to FUEL (Factor's emacs mode)
>
> For more details, please see the full announcement at:
>
> https://re-factor.blogspot.com/2018/07/factor-098-now-available.html
> <https://re-factor.blogspot.com/2018/07/factor-098-now-available.html>
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