Preview 4 – Build 619

The fourth preview release of the compiler.

Changes and new features

CLI

• New command analyze for basic code analysis
• New command clean to delete build artifacts

Language features

• Primary constructors
• Operator overloading and custom operators
• Enumeration types
• Immutable and "byref-like" value types
• Module initializers
• Conversion operators <:, <?: and :?
• Modulus operator %% (as opposed to remainder operator %)
• List literals, including overloaded operators +, &, |, ^ and <<
• Support for unmanaged function pointers and creation of delegate types

Preview 3 – Build 570

The third preview release of the compiler.

Changes and new features

CLI

• Suport for compiler extensions along with new command dc package
• New command dc scratchpad to run code directly from the console
• New command dc run to automatically compile and run projects
• Support for project groups, along with new command dc deploy
• New command dc clean to clear build artifacts and temporary files
• Added -o flag to dc help command to show a list of project configuration options, along with new single-letter shorthands
• Error message redesign

Project and build system

• Support for AOT (ahead-of-time) compilation

Language features

• Pass by reference
• Generic types
• Template types, abstract members
• Function pointers (lambda expressions)

Pre-release 0.1

The second preview release of the compiler.

Changes and new features

General

• Updated to .NET 9 allowing cross-platform support

Project system

• Add support for build and debug profiles
• Rename DefaultNamespace option to RootNamespace

Newly supported language features

• foreach loops
• Parameter constraints

Standard library additions

• ObjectDumper module
• Built-in functions todo, ptodo, error, warn and msg

Pre-release 0.0

The first preview version of the compiler. Nothing pretty, but it works.