Roadmap

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Chas. Boyd edited this page Jan 27, 2017 · 13 revisions

The plan for this project was originally announced last March at GDC 2016. The presentation video is here. A PDF of the slides is also available on that page.

Here is a summary of the key points:

Backlog of candidate language features

Enums
Bit-fields
Language Standard Annotations
References
Unions
Function Templates
Visbility: 'public, private, protected, friend'
Generic resource addressing

Stretch language features

'constexpr'
Assertions
Function pointers (limited)
Lambdas (limited)
Virtuals
Constructors, destructors, etc.
Extern functions (linking)

Out of Scope language features

Exceptions
A stack
Recursion
STL Containers
C99/stdlib compatibility
Garbage collection

Candidate hardware features

Explicit float16/"half" type
Blender intrinsics
More atomic operations
Stereo system values (SV_XXXX)
Programmable blending (aka RT Read)
Input of arbitrary structures
More control over IEEE behavior
Future GPU features