Release 0.5.0-alpha · suprematic/otplike

Process

New selective-receive! macro to receive only matching messages. See docs for more info.
Simultaneous calls to receive! are not allowed and throw an exception.
Added :flush option to demonitor fn. See docs for more info.
New process-info fn returning information about a process. See docs for more info.
New processes fn returning a sequence of pids of all the currently existing processes.
Unlimited process' message queue. No "inbox overflow" error.
New make-ref and ref? fns for unique reference values. Such references are returned for example by monitor fn.
Removed monitor-ref? fn.
Removed :name option of spawn fn.
Removed dynamically bound var *inbox* which could be used to receive process' messages.
Process is tracked (present in known processes list) until its initial function exits.
New alive? fn to check if process is still alive. See docs for more info.
Allowed sending/receiving nil.
Significantly reduced process' start time.
Improved message sending/receiving performance. Use own channel implementation for messages and signals.
Reduced amount of code generated by receive! for special cases (e.g. zero-timeout).
Pid is not a record any more. Can not be serialized automatically.
Added docs for exit fn with no arguments.

The only tracer is allowed for the system. trace fn returns true/false instead of tracer-ref. untrace has no arguments.
:spawn event is split into :spawn and :spawned. :spawn means that spawn fn is called and relates to the parent process. :spawn means that a process init fn is spawned and relates to the child process.
:terminate event is split into :exiting and :exit. See process docs for more info.
Some events (like :spawn) can have nil pid when produced by not a process.
Fixed sending :receive event before the message has been actually received.
Fixed :message value of :send event: put the message, not [context message].

New map-async fn and with-async macro to avoid unnecessary async/await.
Renamed async?-value! to await?!.
New async-value helper fn to make async value from a regular one without using async macro.

Monitoring server during a call. Allows exiting immediately if the server has exited. Caller must be a process now.
Removed redundant async/await during the call.
Fixed gen-server crash on getting its state with get!.