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| <h1 id="_releases" class="sect0"><a class="link" href="#_releases">Releases</a></h1> |
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| <h2 id="_current_n4js_release" class="discrete">Current N4JS Release</h2> |
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| <p>The Eclipse N4JS project is in the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/HOWTO/Incubation_Phase">Incubation Phase</a> and there is no official release available yet (for unofficial releases see the <a href="../download.html">download page</a>. |
| This doesn’t mean that N4JS is unstable; we have an extensive test suite (>90.000 tests including the <a href="https://github.com/tc39/test262">ECMAScript test suites</a>) to ensure a stable nightly build. |
| N4JS has been in use in several large non-public projects for years. |
| There still may be bugs (as there are always bugs) and features which are currently under development. |
| We encourage feedback from all users! For questions about getting started with the N4JS Language and IDE for developing your own projects, see the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/365/">the Eclipse N4JS forum</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Since we are using N4JS and the N4JS IDE internally for quite a while, we have found some issues. |
| There are still a lot of bugs open and we have plenty of ideas for new features. |
| We have used a non-public bug tracking system to manage bugs internally and we are currently migrating them to <a href="https://github.com/eclipse/n4js/issues">GitHub issues</a>. |
| Note that it’s also possible to write and <a href="reporting-bugs.html#reporting_bugs">submit bug reports</a> from within the N4JS IDE itself.</p> |
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| <h2 id="_new_features"><a class="link" href="#_new_features">New Features</a></h2> |
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| <p>In the future, the following topics are expected to be addressed:</p> |
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| <p>Improved UI experience with a focus on customized content assist and quick-fixes.</p> |
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| <p>Improved ECMAScript 2015 support.</p> |
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| <p>Improved type inference and add type guards.</p> |
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| <p>Improved refactoring capabilities.</p> |
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| <p>Improved Node.js developer experience.</p> |
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| <p>Support for browser-based projects.</p> |
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| <p>There may be other topics raised by users. |
| Separating these topics into individual features and prioritizing them will <strong>highly depend on your feedback</strong>.</p> |
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| <h2 id="_incompatible_changes_in_future_releases"><a class="link" href="#_incompatible_changes_in_future_releases">Incompatible Changes in Future Releases</a></h2> |
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| <p>Yes, this may happen. |
| It’s quite possible that the language or APIs must be changed in future releases, which could break existing code. |
| This is no cause for concern, however. |
| As mentioned before, we have a substantial internal code base, so if incompatible changes are introduced, we will provide tools to migrate your code automatically unless the changes are easier to solve manually.</p> |
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| <p>To give you an idea of how this can happen: In earlier versions we used a Java-like syntax for type annotations. |
| Since this did not work well together with features such as async/await, we changed the syntax to ECMAScript 4 colon style. |
| This required our entire code base to be reworked. |
| Fortunately this was simple as we provided a quick-fix, enabling almost all problems stemming from that change to be corrected with a single keystroke!</p> |
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