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  2. title: Status update, November 2021
  3. date: 2021-11-15
  4. outputs: [html, gemtext]
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  7. Hello again! Following a spooky month, we find ourselves again considering the
  8. progress of our eternal march towards FOSS world domination.
  10. I'll first address SourceHut briefly: today is the third anniversary of the
  11. opening of the public alpha! I have written [a longer post for sourcehut.org][0]
  12. which I encourage you to read for all of the details.
  14. [0]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-11-15-sourcehuts-third-year/
  16. In other news, we have decided to delay the release of our new programming
  17. language, perhaps by as much as a year. We were aiming for February '22, but
  18. slow progress on some key areas such as cryptography and the self-hosting
  19. compiler, plus the looming necessity of the full-scale acceptance testing of the
  20. whole language and standard library, compound to make us unsure about meeting
  21. the original release plans. However, progress is slow but moving. We have
  22. incorporated the first parts of AES support in our cryptography library, and
  23. ported the language to FreeBSD. A good start on date/time support has been under
  24. development and I'm pretty optimistic about the API design we've come up with.
  25. Things are looking good, but it will take longer than expected.
  27. [visurf](https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/visurf) has enjoyed quite a bit of progress
  28. this month, thanks in large part to the help of a few new contributors. Nice
  29. work, everyone! We could still use more help, so please swing by the #netsurf
  30. channel on Libera Chat if you're interested in participating. Improvements which
  31. landed this month include configuration options, url filtering via [awk
  32. scripts][1], searching through pages, and copying links on the page with the
  33. link following tool.
  35. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/bin/urlfilter
  37. Projects which received minor updates this month include scdoc, gmni, kineto,
  38. and godocs.io. That's it for today! My focus for the next month will be much the
  39. same as this month: SourceHut GraphQL work and programming language work. See
  40. you in another month!