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0.8.0

• Added support for multithreading (Example).
• Booleans now exist in bytecode.
• Added JSON encoder and decoder (Example)
• Added IO namespace (BytesOutput, Bytes).
• Added continue keyword.
• Added and improved various array methods.
• Added clone method to arrays and hashes.
• Duplicate constants will now be re-used.
• Properly handle deep-comparison of objects and arrays.
• Fixed nested breaks not working properly.
• Fixed various problems with object destructuring.
• Fixed parsing of chained equality operators.
• Catch illegal use of return, break and continue statements in compiler.
• Improved command handling in REPL.
• Fixed /clear command in REPL not working properly.
• Fixed REPL not working on Linux.
• Added missing keywords to REPL syntax highlighting.
• Fixed various typos in REPL.
• Added disassemble command to REPL (requires snekkyd in path).

0.7.0

• Added REPL.
• Added support for ranges (a...b and a..b).
• Added support for basic string escaping.
• Added various string methods (including .contains and .replace).
• Added support for regexes (~/regex/g).
• Added support for when statements/expressions (Example).
• Blocks can now be parsed as expressions.
• Fixed <= and >= evaluating left and right twice.

0.6.0

• Bytecode dumped with --dump will now be compressed.
• Added support for object members (eg. [1, 2, 3].push(4)).
• Moved various std lib functions to object members.
• Added various new std lib functions.
• Added support for for ... in loops using iterators.
• Added hash/array destructuring.
• Added support for variable assigns with operators (eg. x += 2).
• Check whether provided parameters meet expected parameters count of function.
• Added simple HTTP client.
• Changed naming of std functions to camel case.
• Replaced env array with parent ponter tree to prevent issues in closures.
• Array index operator now evaluates to null if index does not exist instead of throwing an error.
• Made different data types inequal to each other.

0.5.0

• Added ability to import external source files using import <path>.
• Added namespacing for std lib functions.
  • Sys.println(s)
  • Sys.print(s)
  • Sys.read_line()
  • String.length(s)
  • String.char_at(s, n)
  • String.split(s, d)
  • Math.PI
  • Math.abs(n)
  • Math.floor(n)
  • Math.sqrt(n)
  • File.read_utf8(p)
  • File.read_utf8(p, s)
  • Array.push(a, v)
  • Array.pop(a)
  • Array.length(a)
  • Array.map(a, cb)
• Added support for single-line comments using //.
• Added null type.
• Added support for != operator.
• Added support for <= and >= operators.
• Added support for && and || operators (short-circuit evaluation).
• Added support for else if.
• Added --no-debug flag to omit debug data from bytecode.
• Expressions now implicitly return the last expression if ; is omitted.
• Expressions that don't evaluate to a value now return null.
• Values of objects can now be accessed using . ({test: 1}.test).
• Changed string concatenation operator to ><.
• Fixed wrong scope of function parameters.
• Fixed unary operator not working properly on object/array indices.
• Snekky will no longer evaluate the bytecode if --dump flag is present.

0.4.0

• Improved performance.
• Input filename can now be specified in the first argument (Snekky <filename>).
• Added flag to dump generated bytecode (Snekky <filename> --dump).
• .bite bytecode files can now be directly executed.
• Functions can now implicitly return a value (no semicolon after last statement).

0.3.0

• Added support for arrays.
• Added support for hashes.
• Added array_length, array_push and sqrt builtin functions.
• Snekky bytecode could now be distributed (contains constant pool and debug tables).
• Comparison is now supported for all data types.
• return-statements can now be used without a return value.

0.2.2

• Dramatically improved performance (~5 times faster).

0.2.1

• Fixed if-expressions not working in binary version.

0.2.0

• Added support for self-invoking functions.
• Strings can now be concatenated using . (concatenation operator).
• Ifs can now be used as expressions.
• Print error if variable is undefined ar runtime.