Cinch and Newton join forces!

That’s right, Cinch and Newton are indeed combining libraries and making sweet sweet IRC love. This does mean that we will be bringing some incompatible changes, but according to Semantic Versioning, you can’t bitch at me because Cinch is only at version 0.3! :–)

Luckily these changes are for the better! Dominik Honnef is the author of the Newton library and has put in a lot of work into Newton, and we plan on implementing some extremely awesome features! Including the ability to use named parameter support, which was a huge hit in the original version of Cinch.

The next couple of weeks is likely to be crucial in Cinch development. We plan on implementing a plugin system allowing users to create self contained plugins to be executed when a rule is matched. We also have a little sneaky surprise for users who’re interested in creating and deploying plugins, but that’s at a very early age right now.

Want to keep updated on changes? Check out the merge branch of Cinch over here. I’ll keep everyone updated on major feature changes. Also feel free to join #cinch on irc.freenode.org to bitch at me about the incompatible changes and send praise for the better features which you’ll soon have access to.