1.0 beta 2

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🤩 This is 1.0 beta 2.

• Improved syntax:
  • 👇 instead of 🐕
  • 🆗 for 🥑
  • Use 📏 instead of 🐔 for collections.
  • Enums are now declared with 🔘.
  • Use ❎ instead of 🚫 for integers.
  • 🍿 New universal literals #156
  • 🆕 🆕 syntax
• Infer generic type variables in initializers.
• String interpolation 🧲
• Method and initializer overloading.
• Improved type inference.
• Add sanity checks for memory flow promises.
• Use emoji file extension 🍇 more prominently and 🏛 instead of interface.emojii.
• Fix bugs with ♻️, generic boxing, a bug with type methods on generic types, a bug with MFA, stack allocation in loops (fix #151)

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1.0 beta 1

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😲 Let’s get excited. This is the first 1.0 pre-release.

🥇 This update brings these awesome, premium grade features:

• 🐚 Advanced generic dynamism (i.e. casting).
• 🎉 JSON parsing returns in the JSON package.
• 🏎 Fine tuning, custom optimization passes and other improvements bring performance improvements of up to 60%.

🥈 Moreover, improvements include:

• 🐕 Short-cut syntax for calling a method on this object. Just write 🙋❗instead of 🙋🐕❗.
• ◼️No return got its own representation.
• 📦 s package gained additional APIs.
• 🎍General decorator syntax for a more future-proof syntax.
• Short-circuit 🤝 and 👐 and other operator improvements.
• Give 🔺 prefix precedence.
• Upgrade to LLVM 8.

🥉 Last but not least, some bug fixes:

• 🐛 Fixes a bug that could cause 🍯🐔 to return incorrect values.
• 🐜 Fixes a bug where boxed optionals with no value would be treated as having a value when releasing.
• 🦟 Fixes a bug that could cause undefined behavior when using 🧠.
• 🍇 Fixes a bug in the pretty printer that caused closures to be printed incorrectly.
• ⁉️ Fixes a bug that could cause memory leaks when calling callables.
• 🍇 Fixes a bug where capture values might be released.
• ♻️ Fixes destruction process to avoid use-after-free in deinitializers.
• 🔡 Fixes a bug with 💯 to 🔡 conversion (#131)

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0.9.0

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• 🔺New, better, more versatile error handling (#112)
• 🔸Introducing multi-emoji identifiers
• 🧼 Upgrade to LLVM 7
• 🔲 Fixes a bug that caused values to be incorrectly retained in casts.
• 🖍 More precise, path-based variable initialization analysis.
• 🍇 Allow non-escaping closures to modify local variables and value type contexts.
• ℹ️ Allow compiler to display supporting notes when emitting compiler errors.

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0.8.4

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• 📦 Fixes a bug that could occur when importing packages.
• ➡️ Fixes a bug that would prevent functions with certain return types from compiling.

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0.8.3

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• ↪️ Improves flow control code generation
• 🦃 Fixes a bug that could cause enums to malfunction across packages
• 🍬 Fixes a bug related to boxing and optionals
• 🔲 Improves errors for incorrect cast operations
• 🍇🍉 Fixes a minor bug related to closures

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0.8.2

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• 📦 Bundle testtube package for distribution.

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0.8.1

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• 🍇 Fixes a bug related to boxing.
• 🖍 Fixes a bug related to the release of variable values.
• -r now outputs its report to the file documentation.json

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0.8

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It’s time for another update ⤵️

• 🐦 Adds a method to search for a value in a 🍨.
• ✴️ Introduces references.
• 🥯 Introduces inline functions.
• Adds warnings for variable shadowing.
• Fixes a bug that allowed returned values to be mutated.
• Fixes a bug related to stack allocation.
• Entirely removes extensions.
• Fixes bugs related to instance variables with a default initialization value.

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0.7

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This update brings many improvements:

• Optionals for pointer types are more efficient.
• Strings now use UTF-8, which avoids a lot of copying. The interface has also been changed.
• Concatenation, dictionary and list literals avoid unnecessary allocations.
• 💈 has been renamed to 🧵.
• Lists and dictionaries are value types now. Read more in the documentation.
• Improvements to the LLVM IR the compiler emits—or simply speaking faster executables.
• Emojicode now ships with testtube for unit testing.
• Emojicode now has an emoji file extension: hello.🍇 (Thanks to @rozaxe and @zored)
• Improved access level inheritance
• Added an additive inverse method (#106)
• Instance variables can be declared and assigned directly in the type body.

Speed improvements of up to 95% compared to 0.6.4 can be seen.

Keep coding emoji lovers! 💚

0.6.4

• Fixes a serious memory management bug related to ↩️.
• 🍇 Fixes a bug that prevented callables from being used with generics and ⚪️.
• 🍇 Fixes closures inside initializers.
• ⚗️ Seed hash returned by 🔡⚗️.
• 🆕 Fixes unexpected initialization behavior.

It is not gonna get any awesomer. Seriously. 😊