Browse aymeric's, an independent, searchable archive of readable snapshots from followed feeds, preserved in Git with aggr. https://aggr.aymericbeaumet.com/sources/toit.io/ 2026-11-01T00:25:04+00:00 aymeric's aggr urn:aggr:item:5c3024a9750480aca845c014f932a31fa2ffbd0f 2026-11-01T00:25:04+00:00 2026-11-01T00:25:04+00:00 floitsch

After more than four years of alpha development, 2,000+ commits, 500,000+ lines changed, and 200+ alpha releases, Toit v2.0.0 is finally here. Toit began as closed-source software developed by Toitware. It later became an open-source…

<p>After more than four years of alpha development, 2,000+ commits, 500,000+ lines changed, and 200+ alpha releases, Toit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://github.com/toitlang/toit/releases/tag/v2.0.0">v2.0.0</a> is finally here.</p> <p>Toit began as closed-source software developed by Toitware. It later became an open-source project, and volunteers have continued improving it even after Toitware shut down in 2024.</p> <p>Despite the &quot;alpha&quot; label, Toit has been stable for a long time. Two things kept us from calling it v2.0.0: we still had some breaking changes planned, and there was always another important feature we wanted to include.</p> <p>Recently, we landed a refactoring that lets peripheral APIs accept pin numbers directly instead of requiring <code>gpio.Pin</code> objects. That was the last major breaking change on our list for v2.0.0.</p> <p>As for waiting until all the important features are finished: we have accepted that this moment will never come. Even now, there are open PRs for a formatter, compiler resolution improvements, and support for more architectures, among other major features. Those will follow in future releases.</p> <p>Here are a few highlights since Toit was open-sourced:</p> <ul> <li>Broader hardware support, including the Arm-based EC618 and almost all ESP32 variants.</li> <li>A unified <code>toit</code> command and improvements that make Toit a more capable desktop scripting language.</li> <li>A rewritten package manager and a growing package ecosystem.</li> <li>Mixins for sharing implementations across classes.</li> <li>Firmware envelopes, allowing users to customize their firmware without rebuilding the SDK.</li> <li>Compiler and runtime improvements.</li> <li>Significantly better hardware testing.</li> <li>Syntax highlighting for Toit on GitHub.</li> </ul> <p>Enjoy!</p>