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This is our initial release of Candy! 🎉

For now, Candy supports the following language features:

• imports using use
• classes
• traits
• impls
• functions that can contain code
• operators: ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=, is
• casts via as
• a standard library including Iterable

We provide the following tools:

• A compiler that transpiles Candy code to Dart (a CLI tool named candy2dart).
• An LSP server that provides syntax highlighting, jump-to-definition, info on hover, compilation and much more.
• A VS Code extension that integrates the LSP. By invoking code actions (by default, that's ctrl + .), you can compile and run a Candy project.

Candy is in its very early pre-alpha stage, so don't expect everything to work. Currently, it's a game of hit or miss. Just so you aren't disappointed, here are the most notable limitations of Candy as of now:

• The type system is completely hacked together: Don't expect complex type constraint solving to work – for example, an impl<T> Foo<T>: Map<T, List<T>> doesn't make Foo<String> implement Map<String, List<String>>. Don't nest your types, duh!
• The generated Dart code is not guaranteed to be runnable. If you generate invalid code, you have to guess what caused the error and fix it in Candy. Most notably, overloading functions doesn't generate valid Dart code.