Roadmap
Planned features and release schedule for Kronos
Roadmap
The development roadmap for the Kronos programming language.
Current Version: 0.4.5 — Website, documentation & interactive playground.
Release Timeline
v0.4.0 — Modules & Error Handling
CompletedQ4 2025Core language features including maps, modules, exceptions, file I/O, and regex.
v0.4.5 — Website & Documentation
CompletedQ1 2026Official website, documentation, and interactive playground.
v0.5.0 — Advanced Language Features
In ProgressQ1 2026Lambdas, list comprehensions, pattern matching, and enhanced type system.
v1.0.0 — Production Release
PlannedConcurrency, complete standard library, package manager, and tooling.
What's Available Now
Everything in v0.4.5 is stable and ready for use:
Core Language
Variables, types, operators, control flow, functions
Collections
Lists, maps, ranges with full operations
Strings
Concatenation, slicing, f-strings, built-ins
Modules
Built-in and file-based module system
Exceptions
Try/catch/finally error handling
File I/O
Read, write, path operations
Regex
Pattern matching and text processing
LSP
Full editor support with completions, hover, go-to-definition
Version Details
Website & Documentation
All features completed — you're looking at it!
Technical Stack:
- Next.js with Fumadocs
- Custom TextMate-based syntax highlighting
- WebAssembly VM via Emscripten
Future Plans
Beyond v1.0.0, we're considering:
- Supervisor Trees — Erlang-style fault tolerance
- Advanced Package Manager — Lock files, dependency resolution
- First-Party Packages — YAML, TOML, XML, WebSocket
- Web Templating — Blade-like template engine
- JIT Compilation — Hot path optimization
- Static Typing — Optional type annotations with inference
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Last Updated: January 2026