Ceylon 1.0 beta is feature complete
ceylon-lang.org
Ceylon 1.0 beta is available, finally, a feature-complete implementation of the language.
ceylon-lang.org
PS: I'm originally from Sri Lanka, which used to be Ceylon under British rule. I'm sure it's a wonderful project, but a bit silly (not to mention exploitive since they even use an elephant in the logo) to name it after a colonial name a lot of people struggled to get rid of.
Edit - On the footer :
Ceylon is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc
Also, FTR, Sri Lanka has been an independent nation for _65 years_. If it's unclear, the Ceylon project does not endorse, nor were any of us alive during, the former colonial rule of the island. Indeed, we're much more interested in elephants than in british guys with funny hats.
> Can any company just trademark the former colonial name of a now sovereign nation?
Yes.
A trademark is a claim of exclusive use of a name for a certain type of product or service, in this case, our trademark prevents other people from naming their programming languages "Ceylon". You can find lots more information about trademark law using Google, if you're curious.