x10-announce

[David P G. <gr...@us...>]

We're very happy to announce that X10 and X10DT version 2.0.0 are now
available for download. This is the first release of version 2.0 of the X10
language. There have been several major language changes from X10 1.7 to
2.0:
      We have added structs to the language. Structs provide a mechanism
      for defining headerless inlined aggregates. For an example of a
      struct, see x10.lang.Complex.
      We have added the ability to declare val instance fields and instance
      methods of a class to be global. This means that the fields/methods
      can be accessed/invoked at any place.
      We have eliminated Values from the language. The combination of
      structs and global fields/methods cover all of the use cases for
      Values.
      We have added static place type checking.
      We have added unsigned integral types.
      For more details on these and other minor language changes, please
      see the language manual or the X10 2.0 tutorial found on
      x10-lang.org.


Details can be found on the X10 2.0.0 Release Page
(http://docs.codehaus.org/display/XTENLANG/X10+2.0.0+Release)