TODO: Planned features & enhancements & ideas

This page summarizes things I would like to do if time allows. Some of them are easy, some of them would require a lot of research and work. I'm working on these items in no particular order, depending on my actual needs and mood.

The idea is to gather all TODOs (including nice-to-haves) here in a structured way and once there's more to write/comment about particular leaf node, create a todo ticket and comment there.

Of course, open bugs will (well, should :-) be fixed first. You may also want to check all TODO tickets.

Virtual Machine

• Ephemerons
• Full breakpoint support
• Pool (arena) based malloc() replacement for use with external C libraries.
• Late-bound globals
• Fully reified (poly)inline caches.
• Rewrite stc

Smalltalk Language & Compiler

• Type annotations and pluggable type system for St/X
• Hidden (non-source) method annotations.
• Refactor ByteCodeCompiler to support pluggable transformations.

Base system

• UNIX/Linux support
  • Better font rendering (Xft or Cairo?)
  • Implement XDND protocol
  • Support for translucent PNG icons in (at least) menus
• Support for deployment packaging (deploy complete package in single file - .mcz?)
• Mini-framework for shortcut management (current scheme is not good)
• Replace UserPreferences with something better.
• Add --sources option to standalone app to allow debugging deployed applications
• Finish port of Metacello and finish Sake (in order to get rid of rakefiles)

Development Environment & Tools

• Improve ​SmallSense (​open issues and todos)
• Improve ​Mercurial support (​open issues and todos)
• Fix SmallLint rules
• Integrate ​Custom Refactorings into SmallSense (once finished)
• Tear-off mini test runner
• Support for SmallLint-based feedback in browse lists (class/protocol/method list)
• Redesign (and reimplement) {{{CodeView2}}}