What's Next for the VAST Platform?
Possible Features for Future Releases
Future features are largely based upon customer needs and the required foundational technology.Many of the below items were collected from the previous Instantiations survey, but if you were unable to participate or if a feature you want is missing, please contact using theVAST Support Portal.
Language & Runtime
- Native Apple M1/Intel and macOS Support
- Support for new processor architectures like RISC-V
- Multi-CPU Garbage Collector
Core Libraries
- Further Unicode integration (work in progress...)
Development Tools
- Remote ENVY (Library) Access
- Enhanced remote debugging support for runtime images
- Updated code change detection and merge engine
User Interface & Visuals
- GTK for Linux (work in progress...)
- Updated GUI icons for the VAST IDE
Communications & Web Dev
- Websockets
- gRPC and HTTP/2
- Improved REST framework (with native SST classes)
- LSP support for connecting VAST to other dev environments like VS code
- JOSE and JSON web tokens
- Authorization/Authentication support (i.e. OAuth2.0, OpenID)
- LDAP/LDAPS integration with Server Smalltalk
- Parasol for Seaside
Databases
- MySQL/MariaDB Support
- NoSQL Support
- Redis Support
Security
- Let us know what you'd like to see!
Version Control
- Further Git functionality in VAST environment
Deployment
- Packager enhancements to simplify deployment
Additional Libraries
- Let us know what you'd like to see!
