V 0.1.23 is out!

[medvednikov]

V 0.1.23

30 Nov 2019

The last release before 0.2.

• Direct x64 machine code generation. Hello world being built in 3 milliseconds.
• Bare metal support via the -freestanding flag, allowing to build programs without linking to libc.
• Prebuilt V packages for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
• string.index() now returns ?int instead of int/-1.
• Lots of fixes in Generics.
• vweb framework for developing web applications is back.
• Vorum, the forum/blogging software written in V/vweb, can now be compiled and has been added to CI.
• REPL, v up have been split up into separate applications to keep the core V compiler small.
• V now enforces short enum syntax (.green instead of Color.green) when it's enough.
• V UI for macOS.
• Interfaces have been rewritten. []interface support.
• os.cp() for copying files and directores.
• Additional compile-time flags: $if clang, msvc, mingw, x32, x64, big_endian, little_endian {.
• All C functions now have to be declared, all missing C functions have been defined.
• Global variables (only with the --enable-globals flag) for low level applications like kernels and drivers.
• Nothing can be cast to bool (previously code like if bool(1) { worked.
• << and >> now work with all integer types.
• V detects Cygwin and shows an error. (V supports Windows natively)
• Improved type checking of some operators (%, |, & etc).
• Windows 7 support.
• println(true) now prints true instead of 1.
• os.exec() now uses CreateProcess on Windows.
• fast.vlang.io website for monitoring the performance of V after every commit.
• On Windows Visual Studio is now used automatically if GCC is not installed.
• vfmt!
• Lots of cleaning up in the compiler code.
• Multi-level pointers in unsafe code (****int).
• MSVC backtrace.
• $if os { blocks are now skipped on a different OS.
• C string literals (c'hello').
• AlpineLinux/musl fixes + added to CI.
• Inline assembly.
• Clipboard module (Windows, macOS, X).
• foo()? syntax for error propagation.
• Docs have been migrated from HTML to doc/docs.md.
• eventbus module.
• Haiku OS support.
• malloc/free on bare metal.
• utf8 helper functions (to_lower(), to_upper(), etc).
• Optimization of for c in str {.
• string/array.left/right/slice/substr were removed ([a..b] slicing syntax should be used instead).

[Jacalz]

I think the release on the github releases page is missing at the moment. Version 0.1.22 is the latest and it is missing the release notes...

[arden]

PS D:\soft\v\examples> v
print_backtrace_skipping_top_frames is not implemented on this platform for now...

windows 10 pro