Release 0.1.7

Release v0.1.7

October 27th, 2023

Additions:

• Support for WASIX, a new, extended standard to WASI, popularized by Wasmer.
  • Define WASIX in runtime.vars to enable it. (-DWASIX on the CLI)
  • Adds support for networking, futexes, and TTY control in WASI.
• switch expressions.
  • switch can appear at the expression level, and uses case X => value to
    specify cases.
• cbindgen now supports passing functions as arguments.
  • Internally uses dyncallback
  • Only for OVM-wasm and Linux, for now.
• Scoped values in interfaces. X :: ... is allowed in an interface now.
• #inject works on interfaces.
• Polling to the io.Stream functionality.
  • Used to query when data is read/write-able from a stream, for supported streams.
  • io.stream_poll
• misc.any_unwrap to unwrap an any containing an optional.
• json.decode_with_result
• json.decode_into
• slice.group_by

Removals:

Changes:

• Complete overhaul of networking in the core library.
  • Backwards compatiblity was not strictly maintained, but common functions did
    not change, like socket_send and socket_recv.
• When debugging, / 0 or % 0 will trigger an exception to debug the error.

Bugfixes:

• alloc.atomic package was broken when sync package was missing.
• X.foo would not work if X was a pointer to a union.
• Captures by pointer would break if the value was a primitive whose address wasn't
  taken anywhere else.
• Symbol name reported by documentation generation was incorrect for some methods.