• significant codegen optimizations
• added list member based type inference, such that val some_collection = [1, 2, 3] is inferred as list(i32) for example.
• made macros importable symbols with public and private accessibility levels
• full visibility checking for macros
• fix nested macro call bug
• added full type checking to macros both in macro arguments and at usage sites inside macros
• nested unions bug fix
• fixes to static array literal instantiation logic in test { ... } blocks
• several significant additions to the following standard library modules:
  • std.math
  • std.term
  • std.memory
  • std.parallelism
• made enforce function generic in errors stdlib module
• improved generics support in heavily nested contexts
• added more tests
• deprecated the mod keyword in favour of the % operator

Full Changelog: v0.0.13...v0.0.14

• add builtin Self type for self-referencing from models (#23)
• add extern function aliases with symbol function annotation (#21)
• fix multi dimensional array passed as macro argument bug (#20)
• fix list literal initialization logic inside test { ... } blocks
• undeclared variable detection fixes
• fix spacing bug with comments in parser
• generic instantiation fixes
• addition of generic sorted[T] function for all numeric types in math module
• add more tests
• add --help and -h flags

Full Changelog: v0.0.12...v0.0.13

• added defer { } construct for resource cleanup
• added support for pointers in list(T) collections, e.g. list(ref Node)
• added support for nested primitive lists, i.e. list(list(T)) for example
• added LHS based inference in casts, allowing syntax such as val x: f64 = cast(y)
• added cross-module generic function usage support
• fixed type inference bug in list(T) collections
• amended CLI behaviour to exit after printing tokens with -tokens flag
• added read_key function to io standard library module
• added LongLongMap, LongFloatMap, and many other maps involving i64 to maps module in the standard library.
• added usize mapping to println and print overloads

Full Changelog: v0.0.11...v0.0.12

• remove raw block construct, as the standard library is now written purely in axe.
• improve ast output formatting
• fix generic call sites type inference bug
• deprecate the C-style syntax for de-referencing pointers in favour of deref
• add duplicate use statement detection
• add type checking to overloads
• expose public apis in net and json modules
• restrict *. and C interop calls to unsafe blocks
• more strict type checking for assignment nodes
• add access modifiers for overloads and enums
• reduce initial allocations in generate_c to alleviate OOM issues (#12)
• add missing extern declarations to json module
• fix prefixing issue with dashes in directory/path names (#19)
• fix usage scanning bug with put expressions
• remove the deprecated .axec extension

New Contributors

• @carsonball made their first contribution in #19

Full Changelog: v0.0.10...v0.0.11

• add syntax for overload mappings for ref and val types
• fix zero arg function syntactic sugar bug
• expose json api publicly
• string interpolation bugfix (#18)
• fix case/switch rendering bug (#16)
• prefer brew llvm installation on macOS.
• make unsafe { } blocks mandatory for C interoperability
• fix type inference issue in assignments (#18)
• fix generic calls in string interpolation bug (#18)
• fix prototype generation of inline functions such that they are static
• deprecate top-level platform / conditional function generation for maintainability purposes
• access modifier checking fixes
• optimizations in codegen
• translations in net module from raw { } blocks to pure Axe

Full Changelog: v0.0.9...v0.0.10

• added $( ... ) syntax for untagged external C types
• fixed #14
  • fixed parallel local scope issue
  • fixed type inference issue
• fixed relative path compilation error and -r issue #10
• fixed zero field struct instantiation error #13
• ported all of the standard library to not require usage of raw (net being the sole exception)
• fixed time module/now() issue on POSIX systems
• fixed case/switch variable declaration or scope issue
• fixed addr and deref rewriting bug
• fixed various other scope issues and false positives for undeclared variables
• improved overall testing framework for development of the language
• axedoc: modernize code to match current compiler standards, and recognize nested functions in models
• codegen: performance optimizations
• saw: check command

Full Changelog: v0.0.8...v0.0.9

• add [entry] function attribute for shared library and .obj/.o scenarios
• add support for ref specializations in generic functions
• removal of C-style pointer syntax, now errors in favour of ref T
• improve randomization logic in std.random to utilize epoch_ms
• considerably stricter type checking
• fixed scope issue with parallel blocks
• mac osx build related fixes
• stability fixes: full stdlib test suite now passes
• fix compilation issue with crypto module in standard library
• fix C interop function call rewriting issue
• argument level validation of types in current scope
• add pre-linking stage entry point checks

Full Changelog: v0.0.7...v0.0.8

• support for advanced nested specializations in generic functions
• support for compound logic in specializations in generic functions
• fix inline function prototype emission issue on POSIX platforms
• nested assert support, such that assert statements in nested contexts are not lost in codegen stage
• more robust function validation logic to prevent lld-link/fallthrough errors
• more robust extern function signature validation.

Full Changelog: v0.0.6...v0.0.7

• full support for generics
• support for generic when/is syntax
• type inference at call sites to generic functions
• implementation of annotations for generic functions
• many cross platform additions
• fixed over-allocation of arena capacity causing crashes in renderer
• fix issue with wrong extension being generated for posix binaries
• fix i32 overflow issue in arena and lists modules
• add --bootstrap flag for no-op'ing the line directive emission
• all compiler tests now pass with saw test
• fix line directive emission to sanitize windows paths

Full Changelog: v0.0.5...v0.0.6

• add platform support for
  • DragonFlyBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • Linux
  • Mac OS / Darwin
• amend os module to support mac and linux
• fix scope issue (#2)
• fix test crashes
• further test coverage of compiler across pipeline
• add defensive nil checks in renderer
• various optimizations in compiler/codegen
• lsp improvements (goto variable declarations, crash fixes, etc...)
• add optional module name parameter to saw CLI's test functionality

Full Changelog: v0.0.4...v0.0.5