dev-2022-05

New Language Features

None

New Compiler Features

• New intrinsics:
  • intrinsics.type_is_multi_pointer
  • intrinsics.type_field_type

Compiler Improvements

• Numerous bug fixes
• Refactored filename handling
• Error message if the output is a directory
• Packages are assumed to be directory-based unless -file is supplied

New Packages

• New builtin container_of
• core:compress/shoco A short string (de)compressor
• core:container/intrusive/list An intrusive linked list
• core:encoding/varint LEB128 encode and decode
• core:encoding/xml An XML parser
• core:image/netpbm A reader/writer for the NetPBM image formats
• core:image/qoi A reader/writer for the QOI image format
• core:image/tga A writer for a common subset of the TGA format
• core:text/i18n An easy way to translate your software using GetText or Qt Linguist translations

Package Improvements

• Additional D3D and win32 bindings and constants
• Unified Sema and Atomic_Sema behaviour
• Fix quaternion implementation #1644
• Updated Vulkan generator and package
• Fixed static arena assertion fail #1740
• core:container/lru Reduce allocations, fixes
• core:encoding/json Unmarshal fixes
• core:hash/xxhash Fixes
• core:path/filepath Add file stem and long-extension procedures
• core:slice More helpers
• core:strings Add Levenshtein distance
• core:sync Improvements
• core:thread New thread pool implementation
• vendor:metal and vendor:darwin numerous additions and fixes
• Quicksort minor fix