dev-2024-08

New Language Features

Compiler Improvements

• Update to LLVM 18.1.8
• Force compiler source to be parsed as UTF-8 (Windows)
• Improve various compiler-internal asserts
• Fix #soa assignment bug
• Add error for type_of(value of untyped type)
• Remove *_test.odin; always compile it for all targets
• Add -print-linker-flags
• Allow x :: y when cond else proc(...){...}
• Allow using a precompiled Windows resource file with -resource:foo.res
• Fix problem where the initial package's directory name ended in .odin
• Fix check for whether executable output path is a directory

New Packages

Package Improvements

• Add bindings for WOW64 API
• Improve os.open for WASI
• Support vendor:stb/truetype and vendor:fontstash on WASM
• Fix linker errors with empty project for vendor:wgpu
• Fix SDL constants
• Fix alignment bug in mem.dynamic_pool and add tests for it
• Fix reflect.as_pointer
• Remove implicit allocator usage in core:dynlib
• Fix utf8_to_wstring given zero bytes.
• Add setenv and unsetenv for Darwin
• Improve core:encoding/cbor
• Remove syscall usage on Darwin to comply with Apple guidelines
• Add some XKB extension procedures and constants to vendor:x11
• Fix @(optimization_mode) usage in builtin collections
• Add synonyms strings.starts_with and strings.ends_with as aliases
• Allow overriding random generator in rand calls
• Add documentation and example for core:container/intrusive/list
• Update stb_truetype.odin
• Add support of ignore tag for json.marshal
• Allow json maps with int keys in marshal and unmarshal
• Add Intel AES-NI support to core:crypto/aes
• Improve rand.shuffle
• Fix leak in core:encoding/ini and add tests for it
• Document core:time, core:time/datetime, core:thread and core:sync
• Add example and tests for vendor:lua
• Many core:sys/windows improvements
• Add json reporting to core:testing
• Add time.to_string* formatters.
• Clamp dot in linalg.angle_between to avoid precision errors.
• Update RayGui procedures