This Week In LiveCode 5

Welcome to This Week in LiveCode! LiveCode is a high-level language with an easy-to-learn English-like syntax. This is a weekly summary of what’s been going on in the LiveCode open source project and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet @LiveCode or send us an e-mail. Want to get involved? We welcome contributions.

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This week’s edition was edited by peter-b.

Updates from the LiveCode open source community

Blog posts and project updates

• How LiveCode Lite Makes Computer Programming Ridiculously Simple: Stephen Goldberg is looking for help to expand this free book * animationEngine 6: a dual-licensed animation library for LiveCode
• fastJson 0.4.1: performance and correctness improvements

Interesting discussions

• Forcing string comparisons, or When is “0” not 0?
• CSV again: How do you deal with all the variants of

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

24 pull requests were merged in the last week.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 7.1.1 rc 1
• LiveCode 6.7.8 rc 1

Notable changes

• KickStarter:
  • Implementation of a web browser as a widget
• Feature exchange:
  • Updated libpq to the latest version (9.4.5) and added the SSL config options.
  • Fixes for some of the minor issues blocking 64-bit Mac support
• HTML5:
  • Refactor standalone startup process

Contributors this week

• montegoulding
• trevordevore
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodeian
• livecodemichael
• livecodepanos
• livecodesebastien
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 24th October: Linux Day presentation in Regio Emilia, Italy
• 5th November: SoCal User Group meeting, Pasadena, USA