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  2. title: Status update, November 2021
  3. date: 2021-11-15
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  6. Hello again! Following a spooky month, we find ourselves again considering the
  7. progress of our eternal march towards FOSS world domination.
  9. I'll first address SourceHut briefly: today is the third anniversary of the
  10. opening of the public alpha! I have written [a longer post for sourcehut.org][0]
  11. which I encourage you to read for all of the details.
  13. [0]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-11-15-sourcehuts-third-year/
  15. In other news, we have decided to delay the release of our new programming
  16. language, perhaps by as much as a year. We were aiming for February '22, but
  17. slow progress on some key areas such as cryptography and the self-hosting
  18. compiler, plus the looming necessity of the full-scale acceptance testing of the
  19. whole language and standard library, compound to make us unsure about meeting
  20. the original release plans. However, progress is slow but moving. We have
  21. incorporated the first parts of AES support in our cryptography library, and
  22. ported the language to FreeBSD. A good start on date/time support has been under
  23. development and I'm pretty optimistic about the API design we've come up with.
  24. Things are looking good, but it will take longer than expected.
  26. [visurf](https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/visurf) has enjoyed quite a bit of progress
  27. this month, thanks in large part to the help of a few new contributors. Nice
  28. work, everyone! We could still use more help, so please swing by the #netsurf
  29. channel on Libera Chat if you're interested in participating. Improvements which
  30. landed this month include configuration options, url filtering via [awk
  31. scripts][1], searching through pages, and copying links on the page with the
  32. link following tool.
  34. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/urlfilter
  36. Projects which received minor updates this month include scdoc, gmni, kineto,
  37. and godocs.io. That's it for today! My focus for the next month will be much the
  38. same as this month: SourceHut GraphQL work and programming language work. See
  39. you in another month!