XDate 0.8 and Future Development

XDate version 0.8 is released! It is mainly comprised of bugfixes submitted via Github. For more info, see the changelog.

Due to other commitments, mainly my work on FullCalendar, I will no longer be able to play as active a role in XDate's development. I will still maintain the project for bugfixes, but I will no longer be developing new functionality.

I originally wrote XDate with plans to integrate it into FullCalendar. I wanted to use it internally as well as in the API. DateJS was around at the time, but not an option for various reasons.

I decided to have XDate follow the same method names and naming conventions as the native Date so it would be more familiar. I figured users of FullCalendar wouldn't want to learn two API's at the same time.

MomentJS has since become very popular. It uses a completely different syntax than XDate or the native Date, one that is very terse and jQuery-like. Its adoption has become widespread enough where I will likely integrate it into FullCalendar instead of XDate. Not to mention that it is extremely well tested and documented.

XDate is still an important project however. It is powerful while still conforming to the familiar native Date API that many many developers already understand. If you are a user of XDate and would like to be part of its future development, please contact me.