v0.2.0

[0.2.0] - 2026-05-18

Changed

• Add VS Code Extension link to README and phoenix-gen doc
• Implement IR lowering
• Implement IR interpreter for testing
• Initial Cranelift implementation
• Update docs with frontend framework plan
• Implement builtin String method support in compiler
• Implement compilation for remaining builtin functions
• Fix error in CI: libphoenix_runtime.a must exist before cranelift tests run
• Add husky pre-commit hook to confirm formatting and clippy and pre-push hook to verify tests pass
• Implement benchmarking
• Refactor if from statement to expression
• Update README, Phoenix Gen documentation, and vision
• Update documentation and make design decisions
• Create a centralized Layout trait for reference types
• Add Result.ok() and Result.err() to Cranelift
• Implement generic monomorphization
• Fix bug where Option.okOr() type was not inferred correctly
• Initial dynamic dispatch implementation
• Implement proper compilation for generic structs
• Fix compilation issues for static traits
• Fix bugs with default arguments and implement <T: Trait> → dyn Trait coercion
• Implement compilation for default argument values on inherent-impl method calls
• Implement ResolvedModule to cleanly separate sema -> IR handoff
• Close out phase 2
• Add 2.6 exit criteria
• Implement foundation for diagnostic builder refactor
• Fix closure capture type ambiguity, complete generic-template stub typed split and ValueID allocator typed split
• Module-system foundation: Implement keywords in lexer, add visibility to parser, update documentation, create module crate with module path resolution and error variants
• Set up driver to handle multi-module resolution
• Implement per-module name mangling and scoped lookup
• Implement module name mangling in IR lowering
• Fix leak of private default expressions across modules
• Complete cross-module type resolution
• Documentation to close out phase 2.6
• Update LSP to support multi-module
• Update documentation to reflect phase changes
• Initial garbage collector implementation
• Implement defer syntax
• Fix hash map O(n) lookup
• Implement merge sort for List.sortBy
• Implement valgrind integration test to confirm no leaks, close phase 2.3
• Update documentation for phase 2.7
• Update LSP to parse all keywords correctly
• Update documentation
• Fix CI failure
• Fix CI again
• Add READMEs for external crates
• Update benchmarking to include allocation
• Implement collections benchmark criterion
• Implement benchmark harness
• Add CI for benchmarking and library to compare benchmark diffs
• Implement Go corpus for benchmarking
• Initial Phoenix vs. Go comparison
• Implemenent type threading through allocation
• Implement ListBuilder and MapBuilder
• Documentation updates
• Implement backend abstraction and wire target into driver
• Implement wasm-encoder to emit WASM; update documentation to reflect pivot due to Cranelift misunderstanding
• Implement compilation for phoenix-runtime to wasm32-wasip1