PLNews: Programming Language News

Squirrel 2.2 has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: the addition of enums and constants, support for default parameters, support for octal literals, bug fixes, and other changes.

Squirrel 2.1.2 Stable has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: changes to the behaviour of generator iteration using foreach, new functions and methods, and bug fixes.

Squirrel Shell 1.0rc2 has been released. Squirrel Shell is a portable system shell based around the Squirrel programming language. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: support for 64-bit Linux systems, the use of Squirrel 2.1.1, stream redirection for child processes, common mathematical constants, and other changes.

Squirrel 2.1.1 has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: optimization of the internal function memory layout, code size optimizations for float literals, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Squirrel Shell 1.0rc1 has been released. Squirrel Shell is a portable system shell based around the Squirrel programming language. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: the addition of md5(), crc32(), adler32(), and exit() functions; an interactive mode; plus fixes.

Squirrel Shell 0.9b has been released. Squirrel Shell is a portable system shell based around the Squirrel programming language. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: changes to move() to use the native OS's file moving capabilities, a working copy() function on *nix, and a fix to run() on Windows.

Squirrel 2.1 has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, automated memory management, and more.

This release includes: support for 64-bit architectures, support for static class members, API improvements, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Squirrel Shell 0.8b has been released. It is a shell based on the Squirrel scripting language.

This release includes: a PLATFORM constant, symbolic access modes for the fopen() function, readdir() and filetype() functions, mathematical functions, and examples.

Squirrel 2.0.5 has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, and automated memory management.

This release includes fixes for 64-bit incompatibilities, performance enhancements, new sq_poptop() and sq_getfreevariable() API functions, plus other fixes.

Squirrel 2.0.4 has been released. Squirrel is a lightweight, embeddable language with a C-like syntax which offers higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, and automated memory management.

This release includes support for weak references, plus API improvements and bugfixes.