janet/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Unreleased

• Add thread/ module to the core.
• Allow seeding RNGs with any sequence of bytes. This provides a wider key space for the RNG. Exposed in C as janet_rng_longseed.
• Fix issue in resume and similar functions that could cause breakpoints to be skipped.
• Add a number of new math functions.
• Improve debugger experience and capabilities. See examples/debugger.janet for what an interactive debugger could look like.
• Add debug/step (janet_step in the C API) for single stepping Janet bytecode.
• The built in repl now can enter the debugger on any signal (errors, yields, user signals, and debug signals). To enable this, type (setdyn :debug true) in the repl environment.
• When exiting the debugger, the fiber being debugged is resumed with the exit value of the debug session (the value returned by (quit return-value), or nil if user typed Ctrl-D).
• (quit) can take an optional argument that is the return value. If a module contains (quit some-value), the value of that module returned to (require "somemod") is the return value. This lets module writers completely customize a module without writing a loader.
• Add nested quasiquotation.
• Add os/cryptorand
• Add prinf and eprinf to be have like printf and eprintf. The latter two functions now including a trailing newline, like the other print functions.
• Add nan?
• Add janet_in to C API.
• Add truthy?
• Add os/environ
• Use (doc) with no arguments to see available bindings and dynamic bindings.
• jpm will use CC and AR environment variables when compiling programs.
• Add comptime macro for compile time evaluation.
• Run main functions in scripts if they exist, just like jpm standalone binaries.
• Add protect macro.
• Add root-env to get the root environment table.
• Change marshalling protocol with regard to abstract types.
• Numerous small bug fixes and usability improvements.

1.5.1 - 2019-11-16

• Fix bug when printing buffer to self in some edge cases.
• Fix bug with jpm on windows.
• Fix update return value.

1.5.0 - 2019-11-10

• os/date now defaults to UTC.
• Add --test flag to jpm to test libraries on installation.
• Add math/rng, math/rng-int, and math/rng-uniform.
• Add in function to index in a stricter manner. Conversely, get will now not throw errors on bad keys.
• Indexed types and byte sequences will now error when indexed out of range or with bad keys.
• Add rng functions to Janet. This also replaces the RNG behind math/random and math/seedrandom with a consistent, platform independent RNG.
• Add with-vars macro.
• Add the quickbin command to jpm.
• Create shell.c when making the amalgamated source. This can be compiled with janet.c to make the janet interpreter.
• Add cli-main function to the core, which invokes Janet's CLI interface. This basically moves what was init.janet into boot.janet.
• Improve flychecking, and fix flychecking bugs introduced in 1.4.0.
• Add prin, eprint, eprintf and eprin functions. The functions prefix with e print to (dyn :err stderr)
• Print family of functions can now also print to buffers (before, they could only print to files.) Output can also be completely disabled with (setdyn :out false).
• printf is now a c function for optimizations in the case of printing to buffers.

1.4.0 - 2019-10-14

• Add quit function to exit from a repl, but not always exit the entire application.
• Add update-pkgs to jpm.
• Integrate jpm with https://github.com/janet-lang/pkgs.git. jpm can now install packages based on their short names in the package listing, which can be customized via an env variable.
• Add varfn macro
• Add compile time arity checking when function in function call is known.
• Added slice to the core library.
• The */slice family of functions now can take nil as start or end to get the same behavior as the defaults (0 and -1) for those parameters.
• string/ functions that take a pattern to search for will throw an error when receiving the empty string.
• Replace (start:end) style stacktrace source position information with line, column. This should be more readable for humans. Also, range information can be recovered by re-parsing source.

1.3.1 - 2019-09-21

• Fix some linking issues when creating executables with native dependencies.
• jpm now runs each test script in a new interpreter.
• Fix an issue that prevent some valid programs from compiling.
• Add mean to core.
• Abstract types that implement the :+, :-, :*, :/, :>, :==, :<, :<=, and :>= methods will work with the corresponding built-in arithmetic functions. This means built-in integer types can now be used as normal number values in many contexts.
• Allow (length x) on typed arrays an other abstract types that implement the :length method.

1.3.0 - 2019-09-05

• Add get-in, put-in, update-in, and freeze to core.
• Add jpm run rule and jpm rules to jpm to improve utility and discoverability of jpm.
• Remove cook module and move path module to https://github.com/janet-lang/path.git. The functionality in cook is now bundled directly in the jpm script.
• Add buffer/format and string/format format flags Q and q to print colored and non-colored single-line values, similar to P and p.
• Change default repl to print long sequences on one line and color stacktraces if color is enabled.
• Add backmatch pattern for PEGs.
• jpm detects if not in a Developer Command prompt on windows for a better error message.
• jpm install git submodules in dependencies
• Change default fiber stack limit to the maximum value of a 32 bit signed integer.
• Some bug fixes with jpm
• Fix bugs with pegs.
• Add os/arch to get ISA that janet was compiled for
• Add color to stacktraces via (dyn :err-color)

1.2.0 - 2019-08-08

• Add take and drop functions that are easier to use compared to the existing slice functions.
• Add optional default value to get.
• Add function literal short-hand via | reader macro, which maps to the short-fn macro.
• Add int? and nat? functions to the core.
• Add (dyn :executable) at top level to get what used to be (process/args 0).
• Add :linux to platforms returned by (os/which).
• Update jpm to build standalone executables. Use declare-executable for this.
• Add use macro.
• Remove process/args in favor of (dyn :args).
• Fix bug with Nanbox implementation allowing users to created custom values of any type with typed array and marshal modules, which was unsafe.
• Add janet_wrap_number_safe to API, for converting numbers to Janets where the number could be any 64 bit, user provided bit pattern. Certain NaN values (which a machine will never generate as a result of a floating point operation) are guarded against and converted to a default NaN value.

1.1.0 - 2019-07-08

• Change semantics of -l flag to be import rather than dofile.
• Fix compiler regression in top level defs with destructuring.
• Add table/clone.
• Improve jpm tool with git and dependency capabilities, as well as better module uninstalls.

1.0.0 - 2019-07-01

• Add with macro for resource handling.
• Add propagate function so we can "rethrow" signals after they are intercepted. This makes signals even more flexible.
• Add JANET_NO_DOCSTRINGS and JANET_NO_SOURCEMAPS defines in janetconf.h for shrinking binary size. This seems to save about 50kB in most builds, so it's not usually worth it.
• Update module system to allow relative imports. The :cur: pattern in module/expand-path will expand to the directory part of the current file, or whatever the value of (dyn :current-file) is. The :dir: pattern gets the directory part of the input path name.
• Remove :native: pattern in module/paths.
• Add module/expand-path
• Remove module/*syspath* and module/*headerpath* in favor of dynamic bindings :syspath and :headerpath.
• Compiled PEGs can now be marshaled and unmarshaled.
• Change signature to parser/state
• Add :until verb to loop.
• Add :p flag to fiber/new.
• Add file/{fdopen,fileno} functions.
• Add parser/clone function.
• Add optional argument to parser/where to set parser byte index.
• Add optional env argument to all-bindings and all-dynamics.
• Add scratch memory C API functions for auto-released memory on next gc. Scratch memory differs from normal GCed memory as it can also be freed normally for better performance.
• Add API compatibility checking for modules. This will let native modules not load when the host program is not of a compatible version or configuration.
• Change signature of os/execute to be much more flexible.

0.6.0 - 2019-05-29

• file/close returns exit code when closing file opened with file/popen.
• Add os/rename
• Update windows installer to include tools like jpm.
• Add jpm tool for building and managing projects.
• Change interface to cook tool.
• Add optional filters to module/paths to further refine import methods.
• Add keyword arguments via &keys in parameter list.
• Add -k flag for flychecking source.
• Change signature to compile function.
• Add module/loaders for custom loading functions.
• Add external unification to match macro.
• Add static library to main build.
• Add janet/*headerpath* and change location of installed headers.
• Let partition take strings.
• Haiku OS support
• Add string/trim, string/trimr, and string/triml.
• Add dofile function.
• Numbers require at least 1 significant digit.
• file/read will return nil on end of file.
• Fix various bugs.

0.5.0 - 2019-05-09

• Fix some bugs with buffers.
• Add trace and untrace to the core library.
• Add string/has-prefix? and string/has-suffix? to string module.
• Add simple debugger to repl that activates on errors or debug signal
• Remove *env* and *doc-width*.
• Add fiber/getenv, fiber/setenv, and dyn, and setdyn.
• Add support for dynamic bindings (via the dyn and setdyn functions).
• Change signatures of some functions like eval which no longer takes an optional environment.
• Add printf function
• Make pp configurable with dynamic binding :pretty-format.
• Remove the meta function.
• Add with-dyns for blocks with dynamic bindings assigned.
• Allow leading and trailing newlines in backtick-delimited string (long strings). These newlines will not be included in the actual string value.

0.4.1 - 2019-04-14

• Squash some bugs
• Peg patterns can now make captures in any position in a grammar.
• Add color to repl output
• Add array/remove function
• Add meson build support
• Add int module for int types
• Add meson build option
• Add (break) special form and improve loop macro
• Allow abstract types to specify custom tostring method
• Extend C API for marshalling abstract types and other values
• Add functions to os module.

0.4.0 - 2019-03-08

• Fix a number of smaller bugs
• Added :export option to import and require
• Added typed arrays
• Remove callable?.
• Remove tuple/append and tuple/prepend, which may have seemed like O(1) operations. Instead, use the splice special to extend tuples.
• Add -m flag to main client to allow specifying where to load system modules from.
• Add -c flag to main client to allow compiling Janet modules to images.
• Add string/format and buffer/format.
• Remove string/pretty and string/number.
• make-image function creates pre compiled images for janet. These images link to the core library. They can be loaded via require or manually via load-image.
• Add bracketed tuples as tuple constructor.
• Add partition function to core library.
• Pre-compile core library into an image for faster startup.
• Add methods to parser values that mirror the api.
• Add janet_getmethod to CAPI for easier use of method like syntax.
• Add get/set to abstract types to allow them to behave more like objects with methods.
• Add parser/insert to modify parser state programmatically
• Add debug/stacktrace for easy, pretty stacktraces
• Remove the status-pp function
• Update API to run-context to be much more sane
• Add :lflags option to cook/make-native
• Disallow NaNs as table or struct keys
• Update module resolution paths and format

0.3.0 - 2019-01-26

• Add amalgamated build to janet for easier embedding.
• Add os/date function
• Add slurp and spit to core library.
• Added this changelog.
• Added peg module (Parsing Expression Grammars)
• Move hand written documentation into website repository.