Build 1.0.35
Posted by brian 1 week agoThe latest build has been posted and online docs updated.
Thoughts on C# 4.0
Posted by brian 3½ weeks agoThere have been lots of announcements at PDC - the Azure initiative seems to have more substance than I was expecting. It will be interesting to see how their cloud infrastructure progresses - in many ways a movement to cloud based systems is a threat to their desktop and Office monopoly. So it makes one wonder what their real commitment to Azure will be.
Build 1.0.34
Posted by brian 4 weeks agoI have posted the latest build for download. I did not update the online docs (no public APIs were changed).
Six Month Review
Posted by brian 15 Oct 2008It was around this time back in April that Fan went "public". So what has happened in the last six months? Here is a quick rundown of the big ticket items:
JVM Summit
Posted by brian 27 Sep 2008I've been in Santa Clara this week for the JVM Summit. It has been a really fantastic experience. The group of attendees was all insanely smart and deeply into language, compiler, and VM design. The nice thing about the JVM Summit was that it was small enough that you got a chance to meet everyone. So it was quite cool to finally meet many of the people who previously I've only known through their blog persona.
Flux Prototype
Posted by brian 21 Sep 2008The beginning of this past summer, I got a hankering to build an "IDE" for Fan with Fan. I called the project Flux, and it has been the driving force behind the fwt. My basic goal was for Flux to be a simple tool available in Fan distributions as the platform for Fan's graphical developer tools.
Three year history of Fan
Posted by brian 2 Sep 2008Today is a good day for my inaugural blog entry, because three years ago today on 2 Sept 2005 I started coding up Fan. The first bit of code was the original compiler written in Java.