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buzz 👨🚀 buzz, A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language
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Back to changelogA lot of work went into implementing the JIT compiler: first with LLVM then with MIR which was way faster at compiling. There's also a lot of new features, fixes and changes. See below.
Added
Inline if
Ranges
any type
as? operator to safely cast something
http standard lib (with an HTTP client)
crypto standard lib (in progress)
list.pop, list.insert, list.forEach, list.reduce, list.filter, list.map, list.reduce, list.sort
pattern.replace, pattern.replaceAll
std.random
bz_call allows a native function to call a buzz function
--ast will dump a script AST in JSON
--check will check that a script compiles whitout running it
Shebang comment is allowed (#!/usr/bin/env buzz) at the start of a script
Changed
Main function signature must either be fun main([str] args) > void or fun main([str] args) > int, plus any required errors
Numbers are splitted in two types: int (32 bits integers) and float (64 bits floating points)
Some performance related changes
VM uses tail calls to dispatch opcode instead of a big switch
More specialized opcodes to avoid checking types at runtime
Some minor things...
Key can be omitted in foreach statements
buzz wil now search a library in a list of common directories
export can prefix declarations
Fixed