dev-2021-12

New Language Features

• Allow casting from floats to complex numbers and quaternions
• @(linkage=<string>) for procedures and variables
• @(require) for procedures
• #load_hash(<filepath>, <string-hash-kind>)
• -target:js_wasm32 target (custom Web JavaScript runtime to run Odin executables)

New Compiler Features

• Add ODIN_NO_CRT global boolean constant
• Add ODIN_BUILD_MODE global string constant
• Allow compilation of assembly files on Windows through nasm.exe in conjunction with the foreign import system (.asm, .s, .S files)
• -extra-assembler-flags:<string>
• -timings-export:<string>

Compiler Improvements

• Improve matrix related operations
• Correctly support -default-to-nil-allocator for all platforms
• -no-crt improvements on Windows
• General wasm32 improvements
• Internal compiler (not language) improvements to data structures
• Improve compilation passes on LLVM 12.0.1 and LLVM 13.0.0 (compiler still defaults to LLVM 11.1.0)
• Correct x in ptr logic
• Numerous bug fixes

New Packages

• vendor:raylib version 4.0
• core:math/linalg/glsl - GLSL-like mathematics types and operations
• core:math/linalg/hlsl - HLSL-like mathematics types and operations

Package Improvements

• Make math procedures contextless
• Add asinh , acosh, atanh
• Represent matrices in fmt as expected
• Make runtime builtin matrix procedures contextless
• package runtime linkage improvements
• linalg.matrix4_look_at_from_fru
• Implement math.ldexp and math.frexp in native Odin
• Add log1p, erf, erfc, ilogb, logb nextafter, gamma, lgamma, signbitto core:math
• Add support for darwin to core:c/libc
• Add numerous new core:crypto packages
• Add os.read_at_least and os.read_full utility procedures
• Correct reading from a console on Windows