dev-2022-09

New Language Features

• #soa pointer type to ad with refactory to #soa data types
  • e.g. #soa ^#soa[]T

New Compiler Features

• Make unreachable() a built-in compiler-level procedure
• Allow for foo() or_else unreachable() or other diverging procedures

Compiler Improvements

• #load can now optionally import the loaded file data as a different type than []u8
  • #load(path)
  • #load(path, []T) (where T is a type that can be trivially loaded from memory (i.e. no pointers))
  • #load(path, string) (shorthand for string(#load(path)))
• Deprecate #load_or(path, default) in favour of #load(path) or_else default
• Allow chaining of #load(path1) or_else #load(path2)
• Pass size information to allocator to delete, when possible, to improve tracking information
• Improved detection of rc.exe
• Improvements to debug symbols for range intervals
• Fix Objective-C related x->y() calls in Odin
• Prepare for future LLVM versions
• Various bugfixes

New Packages

• vendor:commonmark
  • Markdown Variant: https://commonmark.org/

Package Improvements

• core:image/tga can now load as well
• Add math.divmod and math.floor_divmod
• Pretty marshal output for core:encoding/json
• Add ID3D11Debug to vendor:directx/d3d11 package
• Add wgl, raw input, and additional Windows imports
• Add more core:container/queue helpers and peek_front and peek_back
• Add reflect.get_union_variant
• Add slice.sort_with_indices family of procedures
• Improvements to sync.Futex support on windows
• Add core:sys/valgrind package for valgrind, memcheck, and callgrind
• Various bugfixes