Io Programming/Io To-Do

Must Have List for Io 1.0 (Brainstorm)

This is from http://www.quag.geek.nz/io/musthaves1.0.html

• Date rewrite to take timezone offsets into account
• Sequence renamed to String
• Complex numbers

Documentation additions and improvements

• Tutorials need to be written
  • Io Programming/Writing Bindings Tutorial would be helpful
  • Io Programming/Objective-C Tutorial would be helpful
• Reference
  • Make top-level link on iolanguage.com to references.
  • Doc strings for all methods.
  • Examples for many methods.

Security / Testing

• Security Audit
• Security Policy
• Safe Sandbox
• Regression Testing

• maybe? waterken web calculus

Bindings

• xml
• postgres
• mysql

Misc Changes

• Unicode Support in Strings
• Binary Modules (dynamically loading bindings)
• Regular expression callbacks.
• printf (style) formatting would be handy to make porting software easier.
• HTTP server (Needs explanation)
• Readline style input
  • Arrow up / down to see a history of lines entered

Must Have List for Io 2.0 (Brainstorm)

• JIT compilation
  • Rewrite portions of Io that can take advantage of JIT in Io