v/CHANGELOG.md

V 0.1.16

17 Jul 2019

• High order functions

V 0.1.15

15 Jul 2019

• FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly support.
• Hot code 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.
• glad and cJSON are now compiled only once, this makes compilation of programs using gg and `json 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, no println 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 return File. Lots of bugs with optionals 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

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 (previously mut var = val was allowed as well).

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.

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.