version 0.8.14

web/index.txt

@@ -115,5 +115,5 @@ Version 0.9.x
   * term rewriting macros
   * the syntactic distinction between statements and expressions will be
     removed
-  * forward declarations will likely be removed
+  * the need for forward declarations may be removed
 

web/news.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 News
 ====
 
-2012-02-XX Version 0.8.14 released
+2012-02-09 Version 0.8.14 released
 ==================================
 
 Version 0.8.14 has been released! Get it `here <download.html>`_. 
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ Compiler Additions
   ``on`` and ``off`` are now aliases for ``true`` and ``false`` and declared
   in the system module.
 - The compiler finally supports **closures**. This is a preliminary 
-  implementation, which does not yet support nestings deeper than 1 level.
+  implementation, which does not yet support nestings deeper than 1 level
+  and still has many known bugs.
 
 
 Library Additions
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ Library Additions
 - Added ``memfiles`` module.
 - Added ``subexes`` module.
 - Added ``critbits`` module.
+- Added ``asyncio`` module.
 - Added ``algorithm`` module for generic ``sort``, ``reverse`` etc. operations.
 - Added ``osproc.startCmd``, ``osproc.execCmdEx``.
 - The ``osproc`` module now uses ``posix_spawn`` instead of ``fork`` 

web/nimrod.ini

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ srcdoc: "pure/collections/tables;pure/collections/sets;pure/collections/lists"
 srcdoc: "pure/collections/intsets;pure/collections/queues;pure/encodings"
 srcdoc: "pure/events;pure/collections/sequtils;pure/irc;ecmas/dom"
 srcdoc: "pure/ftpclient;pure/memfiles;pure/subexes;pure/collections/critbits"
+srcdoc: "pure/asyncio"
 
 webdoc: "wrappers/libcurl;pure/md5;wrappers/mysql;wrappers/iup"
 webdoc: "wrappers/sqlite3;wrappers/postgres;wrappers/tinyc"

web/question.txt

@@ -38,6 +38,20 @@ Nimrod is one of the very few *programmable* statically typed languages, and
 one of the even fewer that will produce native binaries that require no 
 runtime or interpreter.
 
+
+What is Nimrod's take on concurrency?
+-------------------------------------
+
+Nimrod primarily focusses on thread local (and garbage collected) heaps and 
+asynchronous message passing between threads. Each thread has its own GC, so no 
+"stop the world" mechanism is necessary. An unsafe shared memory heap is also
+provided. 
+
+Future versions will additionally include a GC "per thread group" 
+and Nimrod's type system will be enhanced to accurately model this shared
+memory heap.
+
+
 How is Nimrod licensed?
 -----------------------
 
@@ -61,10 +75,10 @@ statements.
 
 How fast is Nimrod?
 -------------------
-Benchmarks have not been ported yet and support for threads is missing. But in
-the worst case, you can get the same performance as in C if you decide 
-to write as low-level Nimrod code as C requires you to do. That said the only
-overhead Nimrod has over C is the GC which has been tuned for years.
+Benchmarks show it to be comparable to C. Some language features (methods, 
+closures, RTTI) are not yet as optimized as they could and will be.
+The only overhead Nimrod has over C is the GC which has been tuned 
+for years but still needs some work.
 
 
 What about JVM/CLR backends?

web/ticker.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
+| `2012-02-09`:newsdate:
+| Nimrod version 0.8.14 has been released!
+  Get it `here <./download.html>`_.
+
 | `2011-07-10`:newsdate:
 | Nimrod version 0.8.12 has been released!
-  Get it `here <./download.html>`_.
 
 | `2010-10-20`:newsdate:
 | Nimrod version 0.8.10 has been released!