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Version 0.2 (March 2012)
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2012-03-27 14:54:43 -05:00
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* >1500 changes, numerous bugfixes
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2012-03-26 20:17:55 -05:00
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* New docs and doc tooling
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* New port: FreeBSD x86_64
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* Compilation model enhancements
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* Generics now specialized, multiply instantiated
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* Functions now inlined across separate crates
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* Scheduling, stack and threading fixes
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* Noticably improved message-passing performance
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* Explicit schedulers
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* Callbacks from C
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* Helgrind clean
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2012-03-27 14:54:43 -05:00
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* Experimental new language features
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* Operator overloading
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* Region pointers
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* Classes
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* Various language extensions
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* C-callback function types: 'crust fn ...'
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* Infinite-loop construct: 'loop { ... }'
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* Shorten 'mutable' to 'mut'
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* Required mutable-local qualifier: 'let mut ...'
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* Basic glob-exporting: 'export foo::*;'
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* 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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2012-03-26 20:17:55 -05:00
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* New library code
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* AST quasi-quote syntax extension
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* Revived libuv interface
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* New modules: core::{future, iter}, std::arena
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* Merged per-platform std::{os*, fs*} to core::{libc, os}
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* Extensive cleanup, regularization in libstd, libcore
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2012-01-18 16:46:52 -06:00
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Version 0.1 (January 2012)
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2012-01-19 23:17:23 -06:00
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* Most language features work, including:
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* Unique pointers, unique closures, move semantics
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* Interface-constrained generics
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* Static interface dispatch
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* Stack growth
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* Multithread task scheduling
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* Typestate predicates
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* Failure unwinding, destructors
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* Pattern matching and destructuring assignment
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* Lightweight block-lambda syntax
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* Preliminary macro-by-example
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* Compiler works with the following configurations:
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* Linux: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets
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* MacOS: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets
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* Windows: x86 hosts and targets
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* Cross compilation / multi-target configuration supported.
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* Preliminary API-documentation and package-management tools included.
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Known issues:
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2012-01-19 23:17:23 -06:00
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* Documentation is incomplete.
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2012-01-20 00:53:55 -06:00
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* Performance is below intended target.
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2012-01-19 23:17:23 -06:00
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* Standard library APIs are subject to extensive change, reorganization.
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2012-01-19 23:17:23 -06:00
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* Language-level versioning is not yet operational - future code will
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break unexpectedly.
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