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Development Roadmap

We are building Ion in public. Here is our path to a stable v1.0 release.

Phase 1

Foundation

  • •Scaffold
  • •manifest
  • •CMake
  • •CLI
Phase 2

Package Manager

  • •Lockfile
  • •multi-registry
  • •build/run/test
Phase 3

Linting

  • •ion check
  • •--fix
  • •--watch
  • •SARIF
  • •AST rules
Phase 4

Advanced

  • •LSP
  • •go-to-definition
  • •smart-pointer analysis
  • •dataflow
Phase 5

Production

  • •Public beta
  • •200+ packages
  • •enterprise
  • •v1.0

Phase 1 & 2: Foundation

These phases delivered the core value proposition of Ion: the ability to initialize a project, describe dependencies in a TOML file, and predictably generate standard CMake files.

Phase 3: Linting

Introduced ion check and established the two-tier AST/libclang parser backend to catch bugs without needing a separate configuration file for Clang-Tidy.

Phase 4: Editor Integration

ion lsp wrapped our checking capabilities into the Language Server Protocol paradigm, pushing real-time diagnostic squiggles natively into VS Code, Vim, and Helix.

Phase 5: Production & Scale

We are currently actively populating the native Ion registry with 200+ of the most popular C++ OSS packages. We are also stabilizing the build caching system before cutting a 1.0 Release Candidate.