Version 0.4 (September 2012) ---------------------------- * ~1500 changes, numerous bugfixes * Syntax * All keywords are now strict and may not be used as identifiers anywhere * Keyword removal: 'again', 'import', 'check', 'new', 'owned', 'send', 'of', 'with', 'to', 'class'. * Classes are replaced with simpler structs * Explicit method self types * `ret` became `return` and `alt` became `match` * `import` is now `use`; `use is now `extern mod` * `extern mod { ... }` is now `extern { ... }` * `use mod` is the recommended way to import modules * `pub` and `priv` replace deprecated export lists * The syntax of `match` pattern arms now uses fat arrow (=>) * `main` no longer accepts an args vector; use `os::args` instead * Semantics * Trait implementations are now coherent, ala Haskell typeclasses * Trait methods may be static * Argument modes are deprecated * Borrowed pointers are much more mature and recommended for use * Strings and vectors in the static region are stored in constant memory * Typestate was removed * Resolution rewritten to be more reliable * Support for 'dual-mode' data structures (freezing and thawing) * Libraries * Most binary operators can now be overloaded via the traits in `core::ops' * `std::net::url` for representing URLs * Sendable hash maps in `core::send_map` * `core::task' gained a (currently unsafe) task-local storage API * Concurrency * An efficient new intertask communication primitive called the pipe, along with a number of higher-level channel types, in `core::pipes` * `std::arc`, an atomically reference counted, immutable, shared memory type * `std::sync`, various exotic synchronization tools based on arcs and pipes * Futures are now based on pipes and sendable * More robust linked task failure * Improved task builder API * Other * Improved error reporting * Preliminary JIT support * Preliminary work on precise GC * Extensive architectural improvements to rustc * Begun a transition away from buggy C++-based reflection (shape) code to Rust-based (visitor) code * All hash functions and tables converted to secure, randomized SipHash Version 0.3 (July 2012) ------------------------ * ~1900 changes, numerous bugfixes * New coding conveniences * Integer-literal suffix inference * Per-item control over warnings, errors * #[cfg(windows)] and #[cfg(unix)] attributes * Documentation comments * More compact closure syntax * 'do' expressions for treating higher-order functions as control structures * *-patterns (wildcard extended to all constructor fields) * Semantic cleanup * Name resolution pass and exhaustiveness checker rewritten * Region pointers and borrow checking supersede alias analysis * Init-ness checking is now provided by a region-based liveness pass instead of the typestate pass; same for last-use analysis * 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 * 'const' type kind for types that can be used to implement shared-memory concurrency patterns * Type reflection * Removal of various obsolete features * Keywords: 'be', 'prove', 'syntax', 'note', 'mutable', 'bind', 'crust', 'native' (now 'extern'), 'cont' (now 'again') * Constructs: do-while loops ('do' repurposed), fn binding, resources (replaced by destructors) * 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 * Tool improvements * Cargo automatically resolves dependencies Version 0.2 (March 2012) ------------------------- * >1500 changes, numerous bugfixes * 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 * Noticeably improved message-passing performance * Explicit schedulers * Callbacks from C * Helgrind clean * Experimental new language features * 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 * Block-function form of 'for' loop, with 'break' and 'ret'. * 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 Version 0.1 (January 2012) --------------------------- * 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: * 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: * Documentation is incomplete. * Performance is below intended target. * Standard library APIs are subject to extensive change, reorganization. * Language-level versioning is not yet operational - future code will break unexpectedly.