Scotch 0.2.0 is out

School starts tomorrow, so my spare time is going to disappear for a bit. With that in mind, I'm packaging Scotch as version 0.2.0 as a release at GitHub (head to the "downloads" page.)

For help getting started, check out these code examples.

Version 0.1 was a prototype that I released just to get something up. Some significant improvements in 0.2.0 include:

• Significantly more efficient - features like tail recursion and a hash table for variable/function bindings enable version 0.2.0 to run much faster
• File input/output
• Support for threads
• Implemented hash tables
• Algebraic data types
• Anonymous functions
• Expanded std.lib with more useful functions

Plans for the future include:

• Native implementation of Scotch interpreter, in Scotch
• Scotch-to-C compiler
• Just-in-time compilation to an intermediate format - this will likely result in about a 50% speedup
• Systems programming
• Infinite lists