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We are pleased to announce that Alpha build 0.1.5 has been uploaded to the downloads area on this website.
Most of the issues reported by our FOX subscribers have been fixed in this build.

Some of the changes in this build:

• When an error occurs in the parsing stage, X# no longer enters the following stages of the compiler to prevent crashes. In addition to the errors from the parser also an error 9002 is displayed.
• Parser errors now also include the source file name in the error message and have the same format as other error messages. Please note that we are not finished yet with handling these error messages. There will be improvements in the format of these error messages in the upcoming builds.
• The compiler will display a “feature not available” (8022) error when a program uses one of the Xbase types (ARRAY, DATE, FLOAT, PSZ, SYMBOL, USUAL).
• Fixed an error with VOSTRUCT and UNION types
• Fixed a problem with the exclamation mark (!) NOT operator

We are pleased to announce that Alpha build 0.1.4 has been uploaded to the downloads area on this website.
Most of the issues reported by our FOX subscribers have been fixed in this build.

Some of the changes in this build:

• Several changes to allow calculations with integers and enums
• Several changes to allow VO compatible _OR, _AND, _NOT an _XOR operations
• Fix interface/abstract VO properties
• Insert an implicit “USING System” only if not explicitly declared
• Error 542 turned to warning (members cannot have the same name as their enclosing type)
• Changes in the .XOR. expression definition
• Fix double quote in CHAR_CONST lexer rule
• Allow namespace declaration in class/struct/etc. name (CLASS Foo.Bar)
• Fix access/assign crash where identifier name was a (positional) keyword: ACCESS Value
• Preprocessor keywords were not recognized after spaces, but only at the start of the line. This has been fixed.
  Read more …Alpha build 0.1.4 is now available for FOX subscribers
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In this message I would like to share with you some of the progress that we have made with the X# project, and especially the progress with the new compiler.

We have planned to release the first public version of the compiler in the first quarter of 2016 and we are very much on schedule. In fact I think we are a little ahead of schedule.

Most of the new language features that we have on our list for the X# Core dialect are working, and the code generation has proven to be of excellent quality. Our choice to build the new compiler on top of the Roslyn architecture has proven to be an excellent choice. It has taken some effort, but we are getting there. At this moment almost all “valid code” compiles and runs perfectly. We are now focussing on the level of handling incorrect code and producing meaningfull error messages. We are also focussing on some of the areas where the Xbase language is quite different from the C# and VB languages where the Roslyn architecture was written for.

As proof that the compiler is working we have uploaded a few examples (both source, EXE and PDB) that you can test on your own machine.

We have just uploaded Alpha build 0.1.2 to this website. It is available for download for FOX subscribers.

A summary of the changes in this build can be found in the Announcements forum on this website

If you are interested to test this build and you have not subscribed to the FOX program yet, then please go ahead and scubscribe today.