Intend C

The former Arena Interpreter project of Pascal Schmidt was passed yesterday to the new maintainer Pedro Reis Colaço (aka Spyder).

I welcome the users to the new era of the project, Intend C is the new name. We decided to change the name not because the former was bad, but to introduce a major change to it. (And of course because arena.org was already taken! )

Me and some other contributors are already making some major evolutions in the interpreter. Here is a list of some of them:

• Making it more embeddable in other applications through the division of the interpreter into a shared library and a command line tool;
• Introducing a safe mode to sandbox the interpreter access to system and file functions, allowing to prevent misuse of the language capabilities by viruses;
• New modular design to facilitate the creation of new modules like GD, DBUS, GTK, QT, etc… All modules will be shared libraries and will be linked as needed.

These are only some of the major changes the project is receiving right now, so keep tuned and test the first release when published - we don’t know when, but we are working on it…

Thanks for stoping by folks!