fut 3.0.0

How to install:

• Windows: download and run fut-3.0.0-win64.msi
• macOS: brew install fusionlanguage/fut/fut
• Ubuntu 22.04+: download and install fut_3.0.0-1_amd64.deb
• Fedora 38+: download and install fut-3.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Changes since 2.2.0:

• The language is now called Fusion and its transpiler fut. Use the .fu extension for Fusion source code.
• The transpiler is now self-hosted, transpiling itself to C++, C# and JavaScript. Native binaries are released for Windows, macOS and Linux. (#48)
• case value when condition.
• References of different kinds and classes can now be compared: basePtr == derivedNullablePtr, baseReadWritePtr == derivedReadOnlyPtr.
• The + and += operators no longer concatenate strings with numbers or objects. Use string interpolation instead.
• Fixed priority of division/modulo as rhs of multiplication. (#92)
• Fixed floating-point constants with integer values.
• Fixed comparisons with literal null/true/false on lhs.
• Fixed nested ternary operators.
• arrayStorage.Contains.
• int.TryParse, long.TryParse.
• Enum.FromInt.
• EnumFlags.HasFlag.
• TextWriter.WriteCodePoint.
• StringWriter.Clear.
• Improved float literals.
• Interpolated string formats in C++.
• Java collections of float and double.
• Fixed long.MinValue in C, C++ and D.
• Private constants prefixed with # in JavaScript.
• Improved assert in JavaScript.
• Switched private to # in TypeScript.
• Top-level native in Python and Swift.
• Various C and C++ fixes.
• Emitting let for object storage to prevent Swift compiler warning.
• Improved error reporting.

cito 2.2.0

See Getting Started.

Changes since 2.1.2:

• Explicit nullability of references. This is a breaking change: references that allow null are now spelled T?, T!? and T#?. This information is preserved in Swift and TypeScript outputs. (#31)
• D backend, contributed by @epi. (#34)
• Enum comparisons with <, <=, >, >=.
• SortedSet, List.IndexOf, arrays of collections.
• StringWriter.
• Fixed some long operations in JavaScript and Swift.
• Improved foreach and is in C++.
• Improved translation of is Derived d to JavaScript.
• Console.Write/Console.Error.Write implemented with Node.js API.
• Improved error messages.
• Ported the sema pass to Ć. Started porting backends. (#48)

cito 2.1.2

See Getting Started.

Changes since 2.1.1:

• long transpiles to JavaScript's BigInt.
• List.AddRange, List.Last.
• Math.Abs, Math.Min, Math.Max, Math.Clamp, Math.Round.
• case null.
• The ? : operator now accepts object types where one is not a base class of the other.
• Fixed printing long in C and OpenCL.
• Fixed crashes after reporting errors.
• The Visual Studio Code extension now underscores the invalid tokens instead of whole lines.

cito 2.1.1

See Getting Started.

Changes since 2.1.0:

• The Ć parser now transpiles to C++20, Java and JavaScript. (#48)
• The Visual Studio Code extension reports syntax errors, using the parser in Ć. (#64)
• The JavaScript output is now an ECMAScript module, with export classes and enums.
• In TypeScript, only public types are now marked export.
• switch transpiles to Python 3.10+ match instead of a series of elifs.
• Type-matching switch transpiles to JavaScript and Python.
• Lowering dynamic object literals (new Foo { Bar = 5, Quux = 42 }) to series of assignments.
• int.MaxValue, long.MinValue etc.
• assert false now transpiles to abort() (C/C++) and throw new Error() (JavaScript/TypeScript) .
• Implemented all boolean logic operators for JavaScript, TypeScript and Swift.
• expr is Derived newVar transpiles to C++ and JavaScript.
• double.TryParse transpiles to C++, Java and JavaScript.
• Several improvements to string operations in C and C++.

cito 2.1.0

See Getting Started.

Changes since 2.0.0:

• Improved error messages.
• Object literals.
• when clause to type-matching switch.
• ToString in classes.
• Calling methods from indirect superclasses with base.
• List.All method.
• Fixed formatting of doc comments.
• Various C++ fixes.
• C: free temporary strings.
• C: fixed printf format for long.
• Ported the AST, the parser and a part of the semantic pass to Ć.
• One parse and semantic pass when targetting many languages.

cito 2.0.0

After many years of development, cito is now released as a .NET tool.
See Getting Started.