Scotch 0.3.0 is here

I've been working hard lately to hit all of my release goals so I could get a new, improved version of Scotch out the door.

You can read about the changes (or the basics) in the new documentation. Aside from a lot of new functionality, one improvement that I'm really happy about is just-in-time compilation. This results in a dramatic speedup by greatly reducing the number of times each module is parsed. Previously, parsing accounted for all of the major cost centers affecting running time. A big culprit was std.lib, which is loaded at startup and then reloaded into every other imported module as it was interpreted. JIT compilation has resulted in about a 10x speedup for the cases I tested, making Scotch once again faster (again, for specific benchmarks being tested) than object oriented languages in its class such as Python and Ruby.

A Scotch website is in the works, but for now you can head to http://scotchlang.org which is a redirect to the front Wiki page of the Github project. Downloads are available here. And, check out the build instructions here.