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Version 0.3 (June 2012) - not yet!
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* ~1500 changes, numerous bugfixes
* New coding conveniences
* Integer-literal suffix inference
* Per-module control over warnings, errors
* #[cfg(windows)] and #[cfg(unix)] attributes
* *-patterns (wildcard extended to all constructor fields)
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* Semantic cleanup
* Resolve pass and exhaustiveness checker rewritten
* Borrow-check taking over from alias-analysis
* Liveness taking over from last-use, typestate
* Extensive work on region pointers
* Experimental new language features
* Slices and fixed-size, interior-allocated vectors
* #!-comments for lang versioning, shell execution
* Destructors and iface implementation for classes;
type-parameterized classes and class methods
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* Type reflection
* Removal of various obsolete features
* Keywords: 'be', 'prove', 'syntax', 'note', 'mutable',
'bind', 'crust', 'native' (now 'extern')
* Constructs: do-while loops ('do' repurposed),
fn binding, resources
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* Compiler reorganization
* Syntax-layer of compiler split into separate crate
* Clang (from LLVM project) integrated into build
* Typechecker split into sub-modules
* New library code
* New time functions
* Extension methods for many built-in types
* Arc: atomic-refcount read-only / exclusive-use shared cells
* Par: parallel map and search routines
* Extensive work on libuv interface
* Much vector code moved to libraries
* Syntax extensions: #line, #col, #file, #mod,
#stringify, #include, #include_str, #include_bin
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* Tool improvements
* Cargo automatically resolves dependencies
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Version 0.2 (March 2012)
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* >1500 changes, numerous bugfixes
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* New docs and doc tooling
* New port: FreeBSD x86_64
* Compilation model enhancements
* Generics now specialized, multiply instantiated
* Functions now inlined across separate crates
* Scheduling, stack and threading fixes
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* Noticeably improved message-passing performance
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* Explicit schedulers
* Callbacks from C
* Helgrind clean
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* Experimental new language features
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* Operator overloading
* Region pointers
* Classes
* Various language extensions
* C-callback function types: 'crust fn ...'
* Infinite-loop construct: 'loop { ... }'
* Shorten 'mutable' to 'mut'
* Required mutable-local qualifier: 'let mut ...'
* Basic glob-exporting: 'export foo::*;'
* Alt now exhaustive, 'alt check' for runtime-checked
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* Block-function form of 'for' loop, with 'break' and 'ret'.
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* New library code
* AST quasi-quote syntax extension
* Revived libuv interface
* New modules: core::{future, iter}, std::arena
* Merged per-platform std::{os*, fs*} to core::{libc, os}
* Extensive cleanup, regularization in libstd, libcore
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Version 0.1 (January 2012)
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* Most language features work, including:
* Unique pointers, unique closures, move semantics
* Interface-constrained generics
* Static interface dispatch
* Stack growth
* Multithread task scheduling
* Typestate predicates
* Failure unwinding, destructors
* Pattern matching and destructuring assignment
* Lightweight block-lambda syntax
* Preliminary macro-by-example
* Compiler works with the following configurations:
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* Linux: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets
* MacOS: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets
* Windows: x86 hosts and targets
* Cross compilation / multi-target configuration supported.
* Preliminary API-documentation and package-management tools included.
Known issues:
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* Documentation is incomplete.
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* Performance is below intended target.
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* Standard library APIs are subject to extensive change, reorganization.
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* Language-level versioning is not yet operational - future code will
break unexpectedly.