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Must Have List for Io 1.0 (Brainstorm)

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  • 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

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
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