This Week In LiveCode 10

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

News & project updates

• Feature Exchange: Find & Replace: Upgrade processing formatted text in LiveCode
• LiveCode Keyboard Shortcuts Cards

Interesting discussions

• Learning resources for kids
• ’..’ folder needs to be added on MacOS: What exactly should be in the folders?
• Clicking in script editor after compiling a script: Epic bug hunt

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

62 pull requests were merged in the last week.

Notable changes

• Improvements to Linux installation location: Install to /opt/livecode by default
• Optimization of native string processing: String processing in LC8 much faster
• A simple benchmark system
• Replace implementation of MCStringFormatV

Contributors this week

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

Upcoming events

• 3rd December: SoCal User Group meeting, Pasadena, USA
• 30th-31st January: FOSDEM 2016 (LiveCode meet-up TBC)