Pure 0.59 release

Pure 0.59 has been released (docs). This is an update bringing LLVM 3.4 compatibility.

New pure-avahi and pure-lilv modules

New pure-avahi and pure-lilv modules have been released. The former lets you browse and publish Zeroconf services on a network using Avahi, the Zeroconf implementation for Linux and other Unix-like systems. The latter provides bindings for David Robillard's Lilv library and lets you run LV2 plugins in Pure. (LV2 is the new Linux audio and MIDI plugin standard, which is supported by popular Linux audio and MIDI software such as Ardour and Qtractor.)

Pure 0.58 release

Pure 0.58 is out (docs, Windows MSI). This release sports LLVM 3.3 compatibility, a few cosmetic changes in the interpreter and the standard library, and the usual amount of bugfixes. Please check the release notes for details.

Pure language support for the Sublime Text editor

Sublime Pure is a Pure package for the Sublime Text editor based on Adam Sanderson's TextMate bundle. The package has been tested with both Sublime Text 2 and the current beta version of Sublime Text 3 (build 3047 at the time of this writing). It provides syntax highlighting for Pure scripts, a few snippets for Pure control flow constructs, and build commands for running scripts and batch-compiling them to executables.

Puritan: unit testing framework for Pure

Alastair Pharo has created a unit testing framework for Pure, called Puritan. It's still in its early stages, but usable already. Pure sources and documentation are available at Bitbucket. Alastair's announcement on the mailing list can be found here.

pure-glpk 0.3

Jiri Spitz has released version 0.3 of his pure-glpk package (a Pure interface to the GNU Linear Programming Kit). This version supports the latest GLPK version (4.48) which offers some stability and speed improvements.

pure-audio and pure-liblo Windows packages

I've uploaded new Windows msi packages for pure-audio and pure-liblo (Pure's audio and OSC interfaces) which work with the latest (0.56 and 0.57) builds of the Pure msi package.