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Added

• Logic programming.
• Dynamic delimited continuation operators.
• Conditions system.
• Object-oriented programming.
• Dynamic-binding and subject-oriented programming.
• Simple benchmarking machinery.
• Saturation arithmetic.
• Generic logging abstraction/machinery.
• Inline testing.
• Aspect-oriented programming.
• Context-oriented programming.
• Row polymorphism.
• Predicate-based polymorphism.
• Behavioral programming.
• Type-based multiple dispatch.
• Structured concurrency.
• Function trampolines.
• Agent model.
• Support for time-zones.
• Incremental computation.
• Functions with named parameters.
• Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).
• Variadic functions.
• Event-loop concurrency.

Changed

• Simplified polytypic programming.
• Re-licensed to MPL 2.0.
• Added source-tracking annotations when compiling for the JVM.
• Now doing implicit definition aliasing, instead of requiring explicit aliasing.
• New syntax for compiler extensions.
• Made labels (tags & slots) into normal definitions.
• Made the compiler's caching system sensitive to the build configuration.

Removed

• Leiningen plugin.
• Bootstrapping compiler.
• Custom licensing machinery.

Fixed

Deprecated

Security

Added

• Inlined functions.
• Can pass configuration parameters from the build description to the compiler.
• Code selection based on configuration parameters.
• Code selection based on compiler version.
• (Experimental) extensible meta-compiler architecture.
• Export machinery to consume Lux code from host-language programs.
• Generalized/type-agnostic arithmetic.
• (Optional) faster (but unsafe) array-handling machinery.
• (Optional) faster (but unsafe) text-handling machinery.
• (Optional) faster (but unsafe) binary-handling machinery.
• Can now deploy releases with Aedifex.
• Extensible import syntax.
• Context-aware macros.
• Macro volabularies for more controlled macro-expansion.

Changed

• JVM compilation no longer relies on the ASM library.
• Friendlier syntax.
• No more automatic conversions of primitive types in JVM FFI.
• Now demanding mandatory loop names, instead of using default "again" name.
• Now taking into account both contravariance and covariance for mutable types in the standard library.
• Improved syntax for JVM interop.
• Programs are now explicit and first-class and the "main" program must be specified in an Aedifex project.lux file.
• Macros are first-class values.
• Pattern-matching now supports matching against globally-defined constants.
• All (normal) macros in a pattern are now automatically expanded.

Removed

Fixed

• Pattern-matching bug that allowed redundancies for primitives.
• Various bugs related to compiler extensions.
• Various JVM interop bugs.

Deprecated

Security

• Ruby compilation that is compatible with MRuby.
• Tree-shaking for all compilers.
• Fixed compilation issue for Lua.

• FIXED A bug when using extensions from imported modules.
• FIXED Proper data communication between Ruby compiler and directive extensions.
• FIXED Proper inheritance of the default profile in Aedifex.

• Fixed bug that resets analysis extensions.
• Fixed dependency issue that prevented release of Lua compiler.

Fixed a packaging issue that led to bad executable JARs.

• Pure-Lux compiler implementation.
• JavaScript compiler.
• Python compiler.
• Lua compiler.
• Ruby compiler.
• User-defined language/compiler extensions.
• Build tool for Lux (Aedifex).
• Support for refinement & quotient typing.
• Support for continuous & fuzzy logic.
• Support for modular arithmetic.
• Support for function mixins.
• Support for function memoization.
• Support for mutually-recursive function.
• Support for region-based resource management.
• Support for capability-based security.
• Support for information-flow security.
• Support for semaphore-based concurrency.
• Too many bug fixes and minor improvements to count.

• Exception-handling in pure Lux [lux/data/error/exception].
• More immutable data-structures (i.e. stack, tree, zipper).
• Design-by-contract macros (i.e. @pre and @post).
• PRNG [lux/random].
• Property-based testing support in lux/test.
• Language support for Natural numbers (unsigned integers).
• Language support for Fractional numbers between [0,1).
• Library support for Ratio and Complex numbers.
• Underscore (_) can be used as digit separator for numbers (e.g. 123_456.00).
• Modules can now have annotations.
• Automatic structure selection for type-class style polymorphism [lux/type/auto].
• New tools for debugging macros [lux/macro].
• Easy polymorphic math operations [lux/math/simple].
• Monad transformers.
• Atomic references [lux/concurrency/atom].
• Android support.
• Monadic lexers [lux/lexer].
• Regular expressions [lux/regex].
• JSON serialization [lux/data/format/json].
• Algebraic effects [lux/control/effect].
• Parallel compilation.
• Auto-building and auto-testing when files change.
• Improved error messages.
• Improved documentation.
• Improved the naming convention of functions, macros and structures to make them easier to read and understand.
• Various bug fixes and optimizations.

• Better error messages with added cursor information.
• Optimized function compilation and application.
• Tail-recursion optimization.
• Added a unified mechanism for doing host-interop.
• Primitive arrays are now treated as distinct types from the general Array type.
• Program definition is now a feature of Lux itself, instead of the host platform.
• Decision trees for pattern-matching optimization.
• Various bug fixes and refactoring.

• Tons of improvements to JVM inter-op.
• Identifiers now support unicode characters.
• REPL-mode.
• Type-inference when doing pattern-matching.
• Several bug-fixes.