0.8.0

0.8.0

Added

• Support for #[test] annotations (#218, #222) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Add file!() and line!() macros (#168) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Support for field functions and derives to implement them (#169, #170).
• Support for crate in modules (#172).
• std::any APIs for runtime inspection of types (#178) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Support for range expressions (#180).
• Missing implementations for FromValue conversions for i16 and u16 (#235) (thanks genusistimelord!).
• More APIs and iterator-heavy benchmark (#232) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Added initial benchmarks (#189).
• Added cellular automata benchmark (#220) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Added fibonacci and brainfuck benchmarks (#193) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Projection APIs for internal Ref / RefMut (#211).
• Many API additions and fixes (#219, #229, #233, #241, #196, #199, #185) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Annotations to improve measuring the performance of individual operations in the VM (#190).
• Pattern matching for booleans (#188) (thanks genusistimelord!).
• Added support for continue inside of loops (#183).
• Add support for registering and accessing runtime constants (#239).
• Support for panicking pattern binding in function arguments (#195).
• Added parsing for yet-to-be supported path segments (#206).
• Add basic support for threaded execution (#97).

Changed

• Minor changes (#247, #208).
• Improved CLI with cargo-like subcommands (#223) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Compile-time metadata has been simplified (#163, #164).
• Internal compiler improvements (#173, #174).
• Make types used in Context iteration APIs public (#176).
• Slim down the size of runtime meta (#177).
• Change and improve how protocol functions are called (#210, #209).
• Improve performance of runtime hashing (#191).
• Improve diagnostics when using an exclusive reference which is not exclusive (#213).
• Improve performance by reducing the number of copies generated (#194).
• Make compile hooks refcounted for increased flexibility (#221).
• Expose LSP server as a modular library for custom uses (#186) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Improve performance of small objects by using BTreeMap for field storage (#231) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Report errors and warnings through same diagnostics structure (#227, #228).

Fixed

• Minor fixes (#198, #201).
• Documentation fixes and improvements (#248, #234, #242) (thanks robojumper, maxmcd, and hvithrafn!).
• Fix negative fractional literals (#184) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Various fixes for use in OxidizeBot (#161).
• Bug with using wrong protocol for MUL and DIV (#167).
• Add missing macro modules in rune-wasm (#171) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Fixed buggy visibility checks for paths (#175).
• Various fixes and improvements due to AoC (#181, #187, #192, #197, #203, #204, #205, #216, #217).
• Give SourceLoader a lifetime (#245) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Fix miscompilation in struct literals (#246) (thanks robojumper!).
• Fix miscompilation in pattern matching (#214).
• Introduced and fixed binding bug (#202).
• Fix so that different variants of the same enum have different equalities (#215).
• Make float associated fns associated (#240) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Bump nanorand to fix incorrect generation of random numbers in rand module (#243) (thanks tgolsson!).
• Fixed broken assembly of more than one if else (#230).