mimz v0.1.0 — Wingless Butterfly

The first public release of Min-Mozhi (மின்மொழி) — a modern, safe-by-default
HDL, built to teach digital design, and the first Tamil-rooted one. It reads like
Go/TypeScript, is safe like Rust, and speaks English, Tanglish, and Tamil from one
grammar — native Tamil to reach Tamil-speaking learners and to grow Tamil-rooted
programming.

Language edition: Wingless Butterfly (wingless-butterfly-2026-1).

Highlights

• Safety by construction — mandatory reset values, lossless arithmetic by
  default, exhaustive match, single-driver and clock-domain checks, with
  teaching-quality diagnostics. (Compile-time security checks — secret flow,
  fail-secure faults — are a design goal on the roadmap, post-v0.1.0.)
• RTL parity batch — replication {N{x}}, don't-care match patterns
  (0b1??), falling-edge blocks (on fall(clk)), memories (mem), and
  asynchronous reset (async reset).
• Built-in simulator — mimz sim / mimz test run an in-house cycle-based
  engine, validated bit-for-bit against Icarus Verilog.
• Trilingual keywords — write the same circuit in English, Tanglish, or Tamil
  (or mix them); every flavor compiles to byte-identical Verilog-2005.
• Versioning model — two clear axes: the compiler version and the language
  edition (mimz --version shows both).

Install

Download the archive for your platform below, verify it against SHA256SUMS, and
put mimz on your PATH. Binaries are unsigned for this release — see
UNSIGNED.txt in the archive for the one-time macOS/Windows "allow" step. Full
instructions: docs/guide/01-getting-started.md. Or build from source with
cargo build --release.

See CHANGELOG.md for the complete change list.