v0.3.0

🎉 Milestone 3 Release: Ballerina Native Interpreter

We're excited to announce Milestone 3!

What's included:

• Support for type cast expressions
• Support for type test expressions
• Support for shift expressions
• Support for conditional variable type narrowing
• Partial support for ballerina/lang.array
• Partial support for ballerina/lang.int
• foreach statements (support for list and range expressions)
• Support for map values
• Support for record and tuple type descriptors
• Removed restrictions on numeric literals
• Diagnostic reporting

Get started:

Download the release zip from the Release page and run Ballerina programs:

Create a new package:

• Unix/Linux/macOS: ./bal new <path to bal package or file>
• Windows: bal.exe new <path to bal package or file>

Run the Ballerina package:

• Unix/Linux/macOS: ./bal run <path to bal file or package>
• Windows: bal.exe run <path to bal file or package>

Resources:

• Release: https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang-go/releases/tag/v0.3.0
• Examples for subsets 3,4,5, and 6:
  • https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang-go/tree/main/corpus/bal/subset3
  • https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang-go/tree/main/corpus/bal/subset4
  • https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang-go/tree/main/corpus/bal/subset5
  • https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang-go/tree/main/corpus/bal/subset6

New Contributors

• @gimantha made their first contribution in #171

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0