Release Notes for LITTLE Preliminary Release V0.7.9

What's New

This release provides the following new features and capabilities:

Fixed Issues

Not Yet Implemented Features

LITTLE is still at an early development stage, so this list is certainly too short, as many features are still behind the horizon and will be missing for a long time - like a decent UI class library, or DB access.

The feature whose absence hurts most surely is some kind of API documentation. Currently, you have to take a look at the demo code included in the distribution and/or available online. The release of some kind of API doc strongly depends on the maturity of the little.compiler package, as the doctree generator will be included here. Release 0.8 of the language will include this functionality and, at least, rudimentary class library reference.

The list below just mentions missing features of the core language & libraries:

Known Bugs & Issues

Remarks

This demo release uses synchronous garbage collection to avoid performance penalties due to locking overhead.

Later releases will contain the async-multi-threaded runtime as well.