shedskin

features:

• python 3.14 support
• catching up with many older 3.x features (see below)
• move to conan2, pcre2 (paul boddie)
• made build --conan option default under windows
• add new 'advanced 3d software renderer' example (softrender)
• drop setup.py
• many missing tests added
• improve internal stats module (shakeeb alireeza)
• move to c++20

builtin additions:

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• python 3.13 support
• support for set and dict comprehensions
• support for itertools.batched
• support for range object slicing
• ignore position- and kw-only syntax (/ and * args)
• fully type annotated shedskin code (triggered by shakeeb)
• added direct compilation (no makefile) as translate -c (shakeeb)
• major update of docstrings (shakeeb)
• random number generation u...

• started adding type annotations to shedskin (Shakeeb Alireeza)
• use CXXFLAGS instead of CCFLAGS in makefiles (Yuri Victorovich)
• add object address to default __repr__ (reported by Yuri Victorovich)
• FreeBSD compatibility fix (Yuri Victorovich)
• more scalable but slower type inference
• reimplemented {dict,set} using STL unordered_{map, set}
• added --float32/--float64/--int32/--in...

• optimized indexing (when not using --nobounds, --nowrap) (thanks to folkert van heusden)
• optimized list/tuple allocation (thanks to folkert van heusden)
• improvements from running ruff linter (thanks to shakeeb alireza)
• support python 3.12 (used deprecated 'imp' module)
• optimized struct.{pack, pack_into}
• fixed several bugs in struct.pack
• added special-case optimization: list-exp...

• Use CMake to generate output binaries (Shakeeb Alireza)
• Native Windows support! (using cmake and conan; Shakeeb Alireza)
• Dropped blessings/progressbar/jinja dependencies (Shakeeb Alireza)
• Various minor C++ improvements/fixes (Folkert van Heusden)
• mmap ContextManager support (Humhue)
• Basic support for f-strings (no format specifiers)
• Support relative imports
• Support walrus...