[OT?] Tango - what's in it?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Daniel Keep wrote:

> 
> Ok, even if you're not ready to release just yet, can you at least let
> us know what's in Tango?
> 
> Over the past few days, I keep thinking "well, I need a library for X.
> I could implement it myself, but what if Tango has it, and then I have
> to go change all my code?".
> 
> Even just a quick run-down would be good.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
> P.S.  Keep up the good work; from the names that have been popping up in
> relation to Tango, I can't wait to see what it looks like :)

>From the first announcement:

* Atomic mark/sweep garbage collection by default, with a malloc-based 
stub allocator to serve as an example for future development.
* User interception of important language and system-level errors and 
events.
* Various levels of concurrency, including process control, kernel 
threads, and fibers (stack threads).
* A robust IO framework based on the Mango design.
* An array of mathematics routines ranging from low-level IEEE interop. 
to high-level statistics and numerics.
* A networking model that is growing to encompass some of the most 
common IO designs and network protocols.
* Standard C, POSIX, and system API support.
* Basic text processing, a container package, logging facilities, and more.

I think you will find few surprises beyond this, but I can mention
non-blocking IO (selectors), ftp, http, locale, time and calendar support,
some crypto algorithms. The rest is in the details, I think, and what we're
still undecided on. There is a bit of useful template functionality in
there too.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
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