Changelog & News
Roadmap 2020 and beyond
- Turn Citrine into a 1-indexed language [done]
- Use real Dutch ij instead of surrogate ij in Dutch Citrine [done]
- Allow to translate end of line marker (dot) with for example Danda (।) [done]
- Improve portability (less reliance on BSD-lib) [done]
- Improve OOP: Only bind self to receving object in user-defined methods [done]
- Fix Object copy [done]
- Improve sandbox security [done]
- Fix Array delete issue [done]
- Fix div. by zero memory error [done]
- Improve Makefile [done]
- Clean-up: Remove inflection methods Clock Object [researching...]
- Clean-up: Source code comments and generated documentation
- Improve garbage collector [researching...]
- Numeric localization (decimal separators)
- Readability: Allow thin spaces in large numbers
- Writing direction [researching...]
- Continous improvements: performance, bugfixes, manuals, demos, website
Upcoming release: 0.9.2 Wapendal
Currently estimated release date: march 2020.
Plugin Development
Changelog
2019 Citrine 0.9.0/1 - Van Leydenhof
- Romanian language support (Citrine/RO)
- Lithuanian language support (Citrine/LT)
- Hindi language support (Citrine/HI)
- Improved support for macOS
- Fixed JSON plugin
- Fixed buffer overflows in String Object
- Language improvements
2018 Citrine 0.7.5-0.8.4
- Added translation checks
- Localized error messages
- Localized plug-ins
- New Pool Memory Allocator
- First prototype for Windows version (contributed by Twiggler)
- Added icon macros for Geany
- Fixed critical buffer overflows in translator
- Fixed various issues with garbage collector
- Language improvements
2017 Citrine 0.6.1-0.7.4
- Added support for Regular expressions
- Added Hash Feature
- Generic responses (a.k.a. magic methods)
- Sandboxing for online demo purposes
- Added Serialization Feature
2016 Citrine 0.4-0.6
- Implemented Stack Traces
- Introduced Memory Allocator
- Implemented Automatic Garbage collector
- Added support for Dynamic Plug-ins
- Simplified Object Inheritance
- Switch to Abstract Syntax Tree
History
Around 2009/2010 I started a project called PenelopePHP. The purpose of this project was to make PHP code more readable by adding wrapper objects. The project tried to turn PHP into a Smalltalk-like programming language. In 2012 I decided to make the project more generic, rewriting it as a classic interpreter in C. Because of the JavaScript hype, I did another rewrite to turn the system into a JavaScript transpiler. Those projects were called DinkyScript. In 2014/2015 I decided to plan a major rewrite of the system again in C using an AST-parser instead of a classic parser. In 2016 I released the first official version of Citrine.
Inspiration
The inspiration for the Citrine Programming Language comes from Smalltalk (message-based, pure object oriented programming), JavaScript (prototypal inheritance), and BASIC (dynamic scope). The name Citrine refers to the yellow coloured gem and honours the short lived tradition to name programming languages after shiny minerals like Pe(a)rl and Ruby.
Plug-ins
Want to help contribute to Citrine? The Citrine Programming Language can be easily extended using plug-ins. If you like, you can support the project by implementing one of the plug-ins on the wishlist:
- FastCGI/WEB plug-in [TODO]
- PostgreSQL/DATABASE plug-in [TODO]
- MySQL/MariaDB/DATABASE plug-in [TODO]
- SQLite/DATABASE plug-in [TODO]
- Crypto plug-in [TODO]
- E-Mail plug-in [TODO]
- Math plug-in [TODO]
The following plug-ins have been implemented already:
- Demo plug-in [DONE]
- SCGI/CGI/WEB plug-in [DONE]
- JSON plug-in [DONE]
Other tasks to be done:
- Windows Version [Work in progress...]
- MacOS port maintenance
- Performance improvements