Hi, I'm pleased to announce the first early release of Shine [1]. Shine is a programming language which is a loose super-set of Lua, and is built on TvmJIT [2], a modified version of LuaJIT by François Perrad. The project - initially under the unpronounceable working name of Nyanga - grew out of seeing common requests for additions to the Lua language, such as a continue statement, ranges, default function parameters and shorthand arithmetic assignment expressions (x += 1), to name a few. The language and runtime have since grown further to include many additional features, some of which are experimental, and all of which I'm happy to take feedback on. And because I still love Lua, Shine runs vanilla Lua just fine. Notable extensions to Lua include: * Bitwise operators. * Standard libraries (mostly FFI based). * LPeg language integration. * Classes and modules . * `continue` statement. * `try`, `catch`, `finally` * Destructuring assignment. * Pattern matching. * Default function parameters. * Function parameter guards. * Richer type system. * Concurrency primitives * OS Threads (experimental) Shine currently compiles on OS X and Linux. Work is under way on getting it to compile on MinGW. [1] https://github.com/richardhundt/shine [2] https://github.com/fperrad/tvmjit Feedback welcome! Kind regards, Richard