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• Better error messages
• Concurrency library
• Multi-line text literals
• Redefined tuples and variants as products and sums (both at the type-level and the data-structure-level)
• Finished support for generics
• Added the ability to add arbitrary meta-data to global definitions
• Now appending a hash of the name of the definition to the generated classes to avoid collisions in case-insensitive file-systems
• Syntax parsers now use Either instead of Maybe, to allow for useful error reporting in case a parser fails
• The $ macro was modified to do right-association rather than left-association
• Minor aesthetic changes to the standard library

• \open pattern-matching macro
• jvm-import macro for easily working with classes/interfaces
• Simplifed array operations
• Bugfix: Array operations don't infer array type
• do-to macro for working with objects
• Removed the $ suffix from AST functions
• Made the . (composition) function belong to lux, rather than lux/codata/function
• Renamed Error/Functor & Error/Monad to Either/Functor & Either/Monad
• Unified data/number/int & data/number/real as data/number
• Allow multiple prefixes for open
• Added % binding in "do" and "be" macros
• Optimization: Local var aliasing
• Optimization: Compile "unit" as the null pointer

• Several bug fixes.
• New Leiningen plugin for Lux.
• Support for Java generics.
• Can now use both Java libraries & Lux libraries in .jar format.
• Much better interop with the JVM.
• Expanded standard library (see https://github.com/LuxLang/stdlib)
• File & line information added to generated .class files for easier debugging.
• Text interpolation: e.g. (println (<> "Hello, #{name}#!"))
• Improved syntax for working with data-types.

Fixed a bunch of bugs. Implemented a few missing features. Added the (much needed) cache. Started the standard library.

An alpha version of the language meant to let people get a taste for it and see what it's all about.