dev-2021-10

New Language Features

• Semicolons are now fully optional (non-breaking change)
  • https://odin-lang.org/news/optional-semicolons/
• #load_or(path_string, default_byte_slice)

New Packages

• vendor:raylib
  • Including vendor:raylib/easings.odin
• vendor:microui
  • Odin native source port
• vendor:stb/image
  • Includes: stb_image.h, stb_image_resize.odin, stb_image_write.odin
• vendor:stb/easy_font
• vendor:stb/vorbis
• vendor:stb/truetype
• core:hash/xxhash
• core:mem/virtual (still experimental and work in progress)

Package Improvements

• Improvements and additions to core:encoding/json
  • Support json.unmarshal
    • Writing to []byte, strings.Builder, and io.Writer
  • Support three different dialects of JSON: JSON (strict), JSON5, MSJON (Bitsquid flavour)
• Minor corrections to vendor:sdl2
• Improvements to vendor:vulkan to use [^] where appropriate
• Improvements to core:math/big
• Additions to core:reflect
  • reflect.equal, reflect.not_equal
  • reflect.any_base, reflect.any_core
  • reflect.set_union_value
• Changes to core:io
  • Optional n_read/n_written parameters (useful for building utility procedures)
  • Move strings.write_quoted_* to io.write_quoted_*
• Numerous tests for the the png, gzip, zlib, et al packages
• Add bits.log2
• Add i128 and u128 parsers to core:strconv
• Correct append_soa for #soa[dynamic][N]T

Compiler Improvements

• Update Windows to LLVM 12.0.1
• odin strip-semicolon utility tool to remove unnecessary semicolons
• -strict-style
• -strict-style-init-only
• intrinsics.prefetch_* procedures
• Fix slice indices endianness
• General dead code culling in the compiler
• Simplify parsing for directives
• Correct f64 <-> u128/i128 code generation
• Make map internals more robust when using mem.nil_allocator()
• Fix [^]u8 to cstring conversion
• Allow [^]T to uintptr conversion