22 KiB
22 KiB
V 0.2.3
Not yet released
- Allow interfaces to define fields, not just methods.
V 0.2.2
22 Jan 2021
vweb
now uses struct embedding:app.vweb.text('hello') => app.text('hello')
.- Consts can now be declared outside of
const()
blocks:const x = 0
. - Overloading of
>
,<
,!=
,==
,<=
and>=
operators. - New struct updating syntax:
User{ ...u, name: 'new' }
to replace{ u | name: 'new' }
. byte.str()
has been fixed and works like with all other numbers.byte.ascii_str()
has been added.- Smart cast in for loops:
for mut x is string {}
. [noinit]
struct attribute to disallow direct struct initialization withFoo{}
.- Array decompose:
[1, 2, 3]...
is now...[1, 2, 3]
- Treating
enum
asint
and operations onenum
except==
and!=
are removed for strict type checking. - Support
[manualfree] fn f1(){}
and[manualfree] module m1
, for functions doing their own memory management. - Allow usage of
<
and>
operators for struct in.sort
method for arrays, i.e.arr.sort(a < b)
. - Auto generate assignment operators like
+=
,-=
,*=
,/=
and%=
if the operators are defined. - Colorize and improve failing tests output.
- Fix
go
with a generic function:go test<string>(c, 'abcd')
. - Add comptime
x := $embed_file('v.png') println(x.len) println(ptr_str(x.data()))
, for embedding files into binaries. - Advanced vdoc search on mobile layout.
- string's
left()
/right
were removed in favor of slicing syntax:str[..pos]
. - gg: native graphics mode on macOS/iOS (using Cocoa Drawing API).
V 0.2.1
30 Dec 2020
- Hashmap bootstrapping fixes.
- Array decomposition to varargs:
fn sum(i ...int) int
=>a := [2,3,4] println(sum(a...))
- HTML module docs generated by vdoc now have global search.
V 0.2
22 Dec 2020
- Compile-time memory management via
-autofree
. Video demonstration. It will be enabled by default in 0.3 - Channels and locks.
- Thread safe typed arrays via keyword
shared
. - Struct embedding.
- IO streams.
- A powerful websocket module that conforms to RFC 6455 and passes the Autobahn test suite (498 client tests and 249 server tests).
- The
net
module is now non blocking and is more feature complete providing similar API to Go. - V's graphics module now uses Metal/DirectX/OpenGL instead of just OpenGL.
- V can now run in the browser via WASM and execute V code by translating it to JavaScript: https://v-wasm.now.sh
- V binaries for Linux/Windows/macOS are now built and deployed automatically via GitHub Actions.
- Smart casting for sumtypes and interfaces, including complex expressions:
if x.expr is int { println(x.expr + 1) }
. - Clean and easy way to sort arrays:
users.sort(a.name > b.name)
. - A huge amount of
vfmt
fixes and improvements. It has now reached a point where it can be safely used on any V source file. - A new CI job that runs
v fmt -verify
on the entire code base, a new command that makes sure the file/directory has been vfmt'ed. This ensures that all code submitted to the V project is formatted. - A new tool
v vet
for analyzing the project and finding potential bugs and errors. - A new
term.ui
module for building dynamic terminal UIs with an example editor written in it. - Early iOS and Android support.
- All missing ORM features from the old backend were brought back.
- Magic
it
variable has been replaced with smart casts (the change is completely handled by vfmt). - Cross-compiling to Windows and Linux brought back.
- C2V can now generate wrappers. Example: https://github.com/medvednikov/libsodium. (C2V will be released by 0.3)
- C++ compiler support: code, generated by the C backend can now by compiled by C++ compilers.
- Short generics syntax:
foo(5)
instead offoo<int>(5)
. - Cached modules via
-usecache
. Faster compilation due to not needing to rebuild the entire vlib for each program. Will be enabled by default in 0.2.1. - New improved sum types implementation.
- Lots of errors that happen often during the development cycle were turned into warnings to increase development speed. They are still errors in production builds.
- Labeled
break
andcontinue
. - Lots of documentation. The official language documentation grew 3 times in size.
modules.vlang.io
is now generated automatically on every commit.- Builtin compile-time JSON serializer now supports
time.Time
. - Fixes in type aliases, to make them behave just like the types they alias.
array.contains(element)
is now generic.- Lots of improvements in the JS backend and its type system.
- Simpler and more constinent function arg syntax:
foo(a int, b int, c string)
instead offoo(a, b int, c string)
- Lots of fixes and optimizations in the hashmap.
- Lots of missing checks in the type checker were added (for example, checking the correct usage of public struct fields).
- Mutability bug fixes
- Taking the address of a map value is no longer allowed, like in Go.
- Matrix multiplication.
- A new
#pkgconfig
flag to provide platform independent way to get compilation flags for C libraries/packages. - Explicit parentheses requirement in complex boolean expressions.
println
was made even smarter, and can now handle complex types.- Precompiled text templates can now be used outside of vweb via
$tmpl()
. - Gitly, a big web application written in vweb has been released: https://github.com/vlang/gitly
['/:arg1/:arg2/action']
vweb action attribute for easily getting query parameters assigned to method arguments.- Improved performance of text rendering,
gg.text_width()
. - Webview module in V UI.
- Binary enum flags.
[export]
attribute to change exported function name (for example for calling from a C library).unsafe
fixes and improvements.- Improvements to rand:
rand.ulid()
,rand.uuid()
, a unified customizable PRNG API. - Hundreds of other fixes, features, and tests (from now on the changelog will be updated right away as the feature/bug fix lands).
V 0.1.27
5 May 2020
- vfmt has been re-written from scratch using the new AST parser. It's much faster, cleaner, and can format files with compilation errors.
strconv
,sprintf
, andprintf
in native V, without any libc calls.- Interfaces are now a lot more stable and have all expected features.
- Lots of x64 backend improvements: function calls, if expressions, for loops, local variables.
map()
andfilter()
methods can now be chained.- New
[]int{cap:cap, len:len}
syntax for initializing array length and capacity. - New
is
keyword for checking the type of sum types and interfaces. as
can now be used to cast interfaces and sum types.- Profiling with
-profile
. Prints a nice table with details about every single function call: number of calls, average time per call, total time per function import(xxx)
syntax has been removed in favor ofimport xxx
for simplicity and greppability.- Lots of fixes and improvements in the type checker.
time.StopWatch
dl
module for dynamic loading.- Automatic
str()
method generation for every single type, including all arrays. - Short struct initialization syntax for imitating named function args:
foo(bar:0, baz:1)
. - New operator
!in
. - Performance improvements in critical parts of the builtin data structures (array, map).
- High order functions improvements (functions can now be returned etc).
- Anonymous functions that can be defined inside other functions.
- Built-in JSON module is back.
- Closures.
- Lots and lots of new tests added, including output tests that test error messages.
- Multiple errors are now printed, the compiler no longer stops after the first error.
- The new JS backend using the AST parser (almost complete).
- Variadic functions.
net.websocket
module (early stage).vlib
is now memory leak free, lots ofautofree
improvements.- Simplified and cleaned up
cmd/v
,v.builder
. - V UI was updated to work with the new backend.
V 0.1.25
1 Apr 2020
- The entire compiler has been re-written with an AST parser. The code is now a lot cleaner and more maintainable. ~15k lines of old compiler code were removed.
V 0.1.24
31 Dec 2019
- A new parser/generator built on top of an AST that simplifies code greatly and allows to implement new backends much faster.
- Sum types (
type Expr = IfExpr | MatchExpr | IntegerLiteral
). - B-tree map (sped up the V compiler by ~10%).
v fmt -w
.- The entire code base has been formatted with vfmt.
- Generic structs.
- SDL module.
- Arrays of pointers.
- os:
is_link()
,is_dir()
,exists()
. - Ranging through fixed size arrays.
- Lots of fixes in ORM and vweb.
- The first tutorial: building a simple web application with vweb
- Match expressions now must be exhaustive.
- freestanding:
malloc()
/free()
. ++
is now required instead of+= 1
for consistency.- Interpolated strings now allow function calls:
println('val = $get_val()')
. string.replace_each([])
for an efficient replacement of multiple values.- More utf8 helper functions.
-prealloc
option for block allocations.type
aliases.- Running
v
with an unknown command will result in an error. atof
implementation in pure V.- Enums can now have negative values.
- New
filepath
module. math.factorial
.ftp
module.- New syntax for casting:
val as Type
. - Fewer libc functions used (soon V will have no dependency on libc).
V 0.1.23
30 Nov 2019
- Direct x64 machine code generation. Hello world being built in 3 milliseconds.
- Bare metal support via the
-freestanding
flag, to build programs without linking to libc. - Prebuilt V packages for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
string.index()
now returns?int
instead ofint/-1
.- Lots of fixes in Generics.
- vweb framework for developing web applications is back.
- Vorum, the forum/blogging software written in 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 ofColor.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 printstrue
instead of1
.os.exec()
now usesCreateProcess
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 (use[a..b]
slicing syntax instead).
V 0.1.22
28 Oct 2019
- Generic functions (
fn foo<T>(bar T) T {
) with varargs support. array[start..end]
andstring[start..end]
slicing syntax.- Optimized
array.filter()
andarray.map()
. sqlite
module.- Cached modules for faster compilation.
- Dramatic compilation optimizations: V now compiles itself in 0.10 - 0.30 seconds
- V scripts (simpler and cross-platform alternative to Bash).
- Infinite multi-dimensional arrays (
[][][]int
). unsafe
.[deprecated]
attribute.[if]
function attributes for compile time function exclusion for performance.switch
has been completely removed from the language and replaced bymatch
everywhere.pub struct
andpub const
, previously all structs and consts were public by default.musl
support (V can now run on, for example, Alpine Linux).- Module header generation. V now supports closed source modules, which are still used in some industries.
- Constants were added to typo suggestions.
color in [.green, .red, .blue]
now works without specifyingColor.green
.- V compiler is now a module that can be used by other programs.
- Backtraces now have source lines on Linux.
runtime.nr_cpus()
.fn init()
for module initialization.a in [1, 2, 3]
optimization: no array gets allocated.- Raw strings:
s := r'hello\nworld'
. if a := func() { }
syntax for handling optionals.- f32/f64 comparison now uses machine epsilon by default.
V 0.1.21
30 Sep 2019
none
keyword for optionals.- Solaris support.
- All table lookup functions now use
none
. - varargs:
fn foo(bar int, params ...string) {
. - Double quotes (
"
) can now also be used to denote strings. - GitHub Actions CI in addition to Travis.
-compress
option. The V binary built with-compress
is only ~90 KB!- More memory management.
- Unused modules result in an error.
- "Unused variable/module" errors are now warnings in non-production builds.
- Duplicate methods with the same name can no longer be defined.
- Struct names must be capitalized, variable/function names must use snake_case.
- Error messages are now even nicer!
- Lots of fixes in automatic
.str()
method generation for structs and arrays. - ~30% faster parser (files are no longer parsed separately for each pass).
_
is no longer a variable, but an actual syntax construct to skip unused values, like in Go.- Multiple returns (
fn foo() (int, string) {
). !
can now only be used with booleans.
V 0.1.20
17 Sep 2019
- JavaScript backend!
- Hundreds of C warnings were fixed.
gcc v.c
now builds without any warnings. - The mutability check now applies to function args (mutable receivers that are not modified result in a compilation error).
- V tests now show how long each test took.
- Official Android support (only console applications via Termux for now).
- Typo check. If a variable/function/module etc is misspelled, V will suggest the correct name.
- Lots of Microsoft C fixes, and a separate Travis instance for this backend.
- Bitwise operators
|
,^
,&
no longer work with booleans.
V 0.1.19
12 Sep 2019
- Lots of refactoring, simplifications, and optimizations in the compiler.
- Experimental memory management at compilation (only for the V compiler itself for now).
- Lots of ORM fixes.
- Functions can now be inlined via the
[inline]
attribute. - New
mysql
module. - Better error format that is supported by all major editors (go to error).
- Error messages now point to the actual place where the error happened.
- Custom json field names:
struct User { last_name string [json:lastName] }
. - Raw json fields via the
[raw]
attribute. - All C code was removed from the
freetype
module. gg
module can now render all Unicode characters.[typedef]
attribute for imported C struct typedefs.- Support of Objective C interfaces (primarily for using Cocoa).
- REPL: clear command and custom functions.
- REPL tests (which are also used for testing certain compiler errors).
- Syntax bug fixed:
foo[0] += 10
is now possible. - http: support plain HTTP protocol and follow redirects.
- http: header data is now processed correctly.
- net: basic UDP support.
import const
was removed from the language.array.contains()
was removed from the language (in
should be used instead).[0; len]
syntax was removed (replaced with a simpler[0].repeat(len)
)- Primitive aliases were removed to simplify the language.
- GitHub supports V now!
- Backtraces are now printed on panics.
- A new awesome
readline
module. - V.c is now regenerated automatically after every commit.
- A bug with struct ordering was fixed, now structs can be declared in any order.
- V modules can now be built with
v build module
. @FILE, @LINE, @FN, @COLUMN
for debugging.
V 0.1.18
16 Aug 2019
- Built-in ORM (
uk_customers = db.select from Customer where country == 'uk' && nr_orders > 0
). - Map initialization syntax:
m := { ‘foo’: ‘bar’, ‘baz’: ‘foo’ }
. map.delete(key)
.libcurl
dependency was removed from thehttp
module.- All function arguments are now immutable by default (previously they could be modifed inside the function).
http
functions now return optionals.sync.WaitGroup
.vweb
static files serving.crypto.rand
module.v up
to update V.- SChannel support on Windows.
net.urllib
module.- vpm package manager,
v install
. ()
are now required in complex bool expressions:(a && b) || c
instead ofa && b || c
.- All arrays now have a default
.str()
method. - Bootstrapping V with MSVC.
- Experimental
≠
etc support. encoding.csv
module.$if debug {
for running code in debug mode only.- Map struct fields are now initialized automatically, just like arrays.
- Maps now support array values.
json
functions can no longer be used if thejson
module is not imported.
V 0.1.17
29 Jul 2019
vweb
module for developing web apps in V.- vtalk, open source V forum software.
- Generics (very limited right now, but they will be gradually improved).
- Comptime codegen (
foo.$method()
wheremethod
is a string). - @ for escaping keywords (e.g.
struct Foo { @type string }
). - Windows Unicode fixes (V can now work with non-ASCII paths etc on Windows).
- Fix mutable args bugs + don't allow primitive arguments to be modified.
- Declaring a mutable variable and never modifying it results in a compilation error.
- Interactive debugging support.
sync
module for Windows.#!
support on Unix systems (V scripts).- Lots of Visual Studio fixes.
crypto.aes
andcrypto.rc4
modules.- Internal modules.
V 0.1.16
23 Jul 2019
- V can now be used with Visual Studio!
- Hot code reloading now works with graphical applications (e.g. graph.v, bounce.v).
- Compile time memory management for arrays.
- High order functions.
match
expression (replacingswitch
).- Import cycle detection.
crypto/md5
,crypto/sha256
, andcrypro/sha512
modules.os.executable()
- a cross platform function that returns full path to current executable.~/.vlang
andVROOT
were removed entirely. The installation is a lot cleaner now.- V can now be packaged for all Linux distros.
- Arch Linux package.
string(bytes_buffer, len)
,string(bytes_array)
casts.- Multiple
defer
s. key in map
syntax (replacingmap.exists(key)
).
V 0.1.15
15 Jul 2019
- FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly support.
- Hot reloading now works with graphical applications: bounce.v
- VROOT was removed, the installation process is now much simpler.
defer
statement.- map.v was re-written. It's now much faster.
for key, val in map
syntax.flag
module for parsing command line arguments.zip
module.crypto/sha1
module.- Submodules and module aliases (
import encoding.base64 as b64
).
V 0.1.14
12 Jul 2019
gg
module Windows support, V Tetris runs on Windows.- Compile
glad
andcJSON
only once. Programs usinggg
orjson
compile a bit faster. v.c
has been cleaned up and minimized (~16k => ~10k lines of code).type
aliases can now have methods.- Const overflow check during compilation (
byte(1000)
will no longer compile).
V 0.1.13
10 Jul 2019
- New enum syntax (
token == .name
), enum values are no longer global consts. - Submodules (
import encoding.base64
). - Hot code reloading.
- Special
err
variable for getting error values. - Complex numbers.
<<
can now append arrays (numbers << [1, 2, 3]
).- Lots of Windows fixes (Windows still needs some work).
- Lots of REPL improvements (e.g.
>> 2 + 3
works now, noprintln
required). - The website was made easily translatable, it's now partially available in several languages.
V 0.1.12
4 Jul 2019
- V can finally compile itself on Windows (https://github.com/vlang/v#mingw-w64).
os
module now uses optionals in all functions that returnFile
.- Lots of bugs with optionals were fixed.
println
was optimized. It no longer results in allocations. Now it also works correctly with all integer types.- Lots of
vfmt
fixes, it will be enabled tomorrow. - New
strings
module. - Lots of other fixes and improvements, thanks to all the contributors.
V 0.1.11
1 Jul 2019
- Cross compilation for Windows!
- Lots of Windows fixes.
- socket.v.
- maps fixed.
V 0.1.9 - 0.1.10
29 Jun 2019
- Windows support via MinGW-w64. Pre-built Windows binary.
- File structure has been simplified: all vlib modules were moved to the vlib/ directory, makefile was moved to the root.
- One single archive with pre-built binaries for all operating systems.
mut var := val
was fixed (previouslymut var = val
was allowed as well).
V 0.1.8
28 Jun 2019
- Single file programs without
fn main
now work as expected. - REPL has been fixed: it now supports imports, consts, function definitions, etc.
V 0.1.7
27 Jun 2019
- All C code in the compiler and vlib has been replaced with V.
#
syntax for embedding C code has been removed.- Exported functions now need to be marked with
pub
, all public vlib functions have been updated. - CI has been set up (Travis + Azure). On every commit and PR it is made sure that V can compile itself, all tests pass, and all examples compile.
- More tests have been uploaded.
- Cleaner bytes to string conversion:
tos2(bytes)
=>string(bytes)
. - The home page has 3 more examples next to 'hello world' that show the features of the language.
- Lots of bugs and issues fixed.