| Version 0.6 (April 2013) |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| * ~2100 changes, numerous bugfixes |
| |
| * Syntax changes |
| * The self type parameter in traits is now spelled `Self` |
| * The `self` parameter in trait and impl methods must now be explicitly |
| named (for example: `fn f(&self) { }`). Implicit self is deprecated. |
| * Static methods no longer require the `static` keyword and instead |
| are distinguished by the lack of a `self` parameter |
| * Replaced the `Durable` trait with the `'static` lifetime |
| * The old closure type syntax with the trailing sigil has been |
| removed in favor of the more consistent leading sigil |
| * `super` is a keyword, and may be prefixed to paths |
| * Trait bounds are separated with `+` instead of whitespace |
| * Traits are implemented with `impl Trait for Type` |
| instead of `impl Type: Trait` |
| * Lifetime syntax is now `&'l foo` instead of `&l/foo` |
| * The `export` keyword has finally been removed |
| * The `move` keyword has been removed (see "Semantic changes") |
| * The interior mutability qualifier on vectors, `[mut T]`, has been |
| removed. Use `&mut [T]`, etc. |
| * `mut` is no longer valid in `~mut T`. Use inherited mutability |
| * `fail` is no longer a keyword. Use `fail!()` |
| * `assert` is no longer a keyword. Use `assert!()` |
| * `log` is no longer a keyword. use `debug!`, etc. |
| * 1-tuples may be represented as `(T,)` |
| * Struct fields may no longer be `mut`. Use inherited mutability, |
| `@mut T`, `core::mut` or `core::cell` |
| * `extern mod { ... }` is no longer valid syntax for foreign |
| function modules. Use extern blocks: `extern { ... }` |
| * Newtype enums removed. Use tuple-structs. |
| * Trait implementations no longer support visibility modifiers |
| * Pattern matching over vectors improved and expanded |
| * `const` renamed to `static` to correspond to lifetime name, |
| and make room for future `static mut` unsafe mutable globals. |
| * Replaced `#[deriving_eq]` with `#[deriving(Eq)]`, etc. |
| * `Clone` implementations can be automatically generated with |
| `#[deriving(Clone)]` |
| * Casts to traits must use a pointer sigil, e.g. `@foo as @Bar` |
| instead of `foo as Bar`. |
| * Fixed length vector types are now written as `[int, .. 3]` |
| instead of `[int * 3]`. |
| * Fixed length vector types can express the length as a constant |
| expression. (ex: `[int, .. GL_BUFFER_SIZE - 2]`) |
| |
| * Semantic changes |
| * Types with owned pointers or custom destructors move by default, |
| eliminating the `move` keyword |
| * All foreign functions are considered unsafe |
| * &mut is now unaliasable |
| * Writes to borrowed @mut pointers are prevented dynamically |
| * () has size 0 |
| * The name of the main function can be customized using #[main] |
| * The default type of an inferred closure is &fn instead of @fn |
| * `use` statements may no longer be "chained" - they cannot import |
| identifiers imported by previous `use` statements |
| * `use` statements are crate relative, importing from the "top" |
| of the crate by default. Paths may be prefixed with `super::` |
| or `self::` to change the search behavior. |
| * Method visibility is inherited from the implementation declaration |
| * Structural records have been removed |
| * Many more types can be used in static items, including enums |
| 'static-lifetime pointers and vectors |
| * Pattern matching over vectors improved and expanded |
| * Typechecking of closure types has been overhauled to |
| improve inference and eliminate unsoundness |
| * Macros leave scope at the end of modules, unless that module is |
| tagged with #[macro_escape] |
| |
| * Libraries |
| * Added big integers to `std::bigint` |
| * Removed `core::oldcomm` module |
| * Added pipe-based `core::comm` module |
| * Numeric traits have been reorganized under `core::num` |
| * `vec::slice` finally returns a slice |
| * `debug!` and friends don't require a format string, e.g. `debug!(Foo)` |
| * Containers reorganized around traits in `core::container` |
| * `core::dvec` removed, `~[T]` is a drop-in replacement |
| * `core::send_map` renamed to `core::hashmap` |
| * `std::map` removed; replaced with `core::hashmap` |
| * `std::treemap` reimplemented as an owned balanced tree |
| * `std::deque` and `std::smallintmap` reimplemented as owned containers |
| * `core::trie` added as a fast ordered map for integer keys |
| * Set types added to `core::hashmap`, `core::trie` and `std::treemap` |
| * `Ord` split into `Ord` and `TotalOrd`. `Ord` is still used to |
| overload the comparison operators, whereas `TotalOrd` is used |
| by certain container types |
| |
| * Other |
| * Replaced the 'cargo' package manager with 'rustpkg' |
| * Added all-purpose 'rust' tool |
| * `rustc --test` now supports benchmarks with the `#[bench]` attribute |
| * rustc now *attempts* to offer spelling suggestions |
| * Improved support for ARM and Android |
| * Preliminary MIPS backend |
| * Improved foreign function ABI implementation for x86, x86_64 |
| * Various memory usage improvements |
| * Rust code may be embedded in foreign code under limited circumstances |
| * Inline assembler supported by new asm!() syntax extension. |
| |
| Version 0.5 (December 2012) |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| * ~900 changes, numerous bugfixes |
| |
| * Syntax changes |
| * Removed `<-` move operator |
| * Completed the transition from the `#fmt` extension syntax to `fmt!` |
| * Removed old fixed length vector syntax - `[T]/N` |
| * New token-based quasi-quoters, `quote_tokens!`, `quote_expr!`, etc. |
| * Macros may now expand to items and statements |
| * `a.b()` is always parsed as a method call, never as a field projection |
| * `Eq` and `IterBytes` implementations can be automatically generated |
| with `#[deriving_eq]` and `#[deriving_iter_bytes]` respectively |
| * Removed the special crate language for `.rc` files |
| * Function arguments may consist of any irrefutable pattern |
| |
| * Semantic changes |
| * `&` and `~` pointers may point to objects |
| * Tuple structs - `struct Foo(Bar, Baz)`. Will replace newtype enums. |
| * Enum variants may be structs |
| * Destructors can be added to all nominal types with the Drop trait |
| * Structs and nullary enum variants may be constants |
| * Values that cannot be implicitly copied are now automatically moved |
| without writing `move` explicitly |
| * `&T` may now be coerced to `*T` |
| * Coercions happen in `let` statements as well as function calls |
| * `use` statements now take crate-relative paths |
| * The module and type namespaces have been merged so that static |
| method names can be resolved under the trait in which they are |
| declared |
| |
| * Improved support for language features |
| * Trait inheritance works in many scenarios |
| * More support for explicit self arguments in methods - `self`, `&self` |
| `@self`, and `~self` all generally work as expected |
| * Static methods work in more situations |
| * Experimental: Traits may declare default methods for the implementations |
| to use |
| |
| * Libraries |
| * New condition handling system in `core::condition` |
| * Timsort added to `std::sort` |
| * New priority queue, `std::priority_queue` |
| * Pipes for serializable types, `std::flatpipes' |
| * Serialization overhauled to be trait-based |
| * Expanded `getopts` definitions |
| * Moved futures to `std` |
| * More functions are pure now |
| * `core::comm` renamed to `oldcomm`. Still deprecated |
| * `rustdoc` and `cargo` are libraries now |
| |
| * Misc |
| * Added a preliminary REPL, `rusti` |
| * License changed from MIT to dual MIT/APL2 |
| |
| Version 0.4 (October 2012) |
| -------------------------- |
| |
| * ~2000 changes, numerous bugfixes |
| |
| * Syntax |
| * All keywords are now strict and may not be used as identifiers anywhere |
| * Keyword removal: 'again', 'import', 'check', 'new', 'owned', 'send', |
| 'of', 'with', 'to', 'class'. |
| * Classes are replaced with simpler structs |
| * Explicit method self types |
| * `ret` became `return` and `alt` became `match` |
| * `import` is now `use`; `use is now `extern mod` |
| * `extern mod { ... }` is now `extern { ... }` |
| * `use mod` is the recommended way to import modules |
| * `pub` and `priv` replace deprecated export lists |
| * The syntax of `match` pattern arms now uses fat arrow (=>) |
| * `main` no longer accepts an args vector; use `os::args` instead |
| |
| * Semantics |
| * Trait implementations are now coherent, ala Haskell typeclasses |
| * Trait methods may be static |
| * Argument modes are deprecated |
| * Borrowed pointers are much more mature and recommended for use |
| * Strings and vectors in the static region are stored in constant memory |
| * Typestate was removed |
| * Resolution rewritten to be more reliable |
| * Support for 'dual-mode' data structures (freezing and thawing) |
| |
| * Libraries |
| * Most binary operators can now be overloaded via the traits in |
| `core::ops' |
| * `std::net::url` for representing URLs |
| * Sendable hash maps in `core::send_map` |
| * `core::task' gained a (currently unsafe) task-local storage API |
| |
| * Concurrency |
| * An efficient new intertask communication primitive called the pipe, |
| along with a number of higher-level channel types, in `core::pipes` |
| * `std::arc`, an atomically reference counted, immutable, shared memory |
| type |
| * `std::sync`, various exotic synchronization tools based on arcs and pipes |
| * Futures are now based on pipes and sendable |
| * More robust linked task failure |
| * Improved task builder API |
| |
| * Other |
| * Improved error reporting |
| * Preliminary JIT support |
| * Preliminary work on precise GC |
| * Extensive architectural improvements to rustc |
| * Begun a transition away from buggy C++-based reflection (shape) code to |
| Rust-based (visitor) code |
| * All hash functions and tables converted to secure, randomized SipHash |
| |
| Version 0.3 (July 2012) |
| ------------------------ |
| |
| * ~1900 changes, numerous bugfixes |
| |
| * New coding conveniences |
| * Integer-literal suffix inference |
| * Per-item control over warnings, errors |
| * #[cfg(windows)] and #[cfg(unix)] attributes |
| * Documentation comments |
| * More compact closure syntax |
| * 'do' expressions for treating higher-order functions as |
| control structures |
| * *-patterns (wildcard extended to all constructor fields) |
| |
| * Semantic cleanup |
| * Name resolution pass and exhaustiveness checker rewritten |
| * Region pointers and borrow checking supersede alias |
| analysis |
| * Init-ness checking is now provided by a region-based liveness |
| pass instead of the typestate pass; same for last-use analysis |
| * Extensive work on region pointers |
| |
| * Experimental new language features |
| * Slices and fixed-size, interior-allocated vectors |
| * #!-comments for lang versioning, shell execution |
| * Destructors and iface implementation for classes; |
| type-parameterized classes and class methods |
| * 'const' type kind for types that can be used to implement |
| shared-memory concurrency patterns |
| |
| * Type reflection |
| |
| * Removal of various obsolete features |
| * Keywords: 'be', 'prove', 'syntax', 'note', 'mutable', 'bind', |
| 'crust', 'native' (now 'extern'), 'cont' (now 'again') |
| |
| * Constructs: do-while loops ('do' repurposed), fn binding, |
| resources (replaced by destructors) |
| |
| * Compiler reorganization |
| * Syntax-layer of compiler split into separate crate |
| * Clang (from LLVM project) integrated into build |
| * Typechecker split into sub-modules |
| |
| * New library code |
| * New time functions |
| * Extension methods for many built-in types |
| * Arc: atomic-refcount read-only / exclusive-use shared cells |
| * Par: parallel map and search routines |
| * Extensive work on libuv interface |
| * Much vector code moved to libraries |
| * Syntax extensions: #line, #col, #file, #mod, #stringify, |
| #include, #include_str, #include_bin |
| |
| * Tool improvements |
| * Cargo automatically resolves dependencies |
| |
| Version 0.2 (March 2012) |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| * >1500 changes, numerous bugfixes |
| |
| * New docs and doc tooling |
| |
| * New port: FreeBSD x86_64 |
| |
| * Compilation model enhancements |
| * Generics now specialized, multiply instantiated |
| * Functions now inlined across separate crates |
| |
| * Scheduling, stack and threading fixes |
| * Noticeably improved message-passing performance |
| * Explicit schedulers |
| * Callbacks from C |
| * Helgrind clean |
| |
| * Experimental new language features |
| * Operator overloading |
| * Region pointers |
| * Classes |
| |
| * Various language extensions |
| * C-callback function types: 'crust fn ...' |
| * Infinite-loop construct: 'loop { ... }' |
| * Shorten 'mutable' to 'mut' |
| * Required mutable-local qualifier: 'let mut ...' |
| * Basic glob-exporting: 'export foo::*;' |
| * Alt now exhaustive, 'alt check' for runtime-checked |
| * Block-function form of 'for' loop, with 'break' and 'ret'. |
| |
| * New library code |
| * AST quasi-quote syntax extension |
| * Revived libuv interface |
| * New modules: core::{future, iter}, std::arena |
| * Merged per-platform std::{os*, fs*} to core::{libc, os} |
| * Extensive cleanup, regularization in libstd, libcore |
| |
| Version 0.1 (January 2012) |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| * Most language features work, including: |
| * Unique pointers, unique closures, move semantics |
| * Interface-constrained generics |
| * Static interface dispatch |
| * Stack growth |
| * Multithread task scheduling |
| * Typestate predicates |
| * Failure unwinding, destructors |
| * Pattern matching and destructuring assignment |
| * Lightweight block-lambda syntax |
| * Preliminary macro-by-example |
| |
| * Compiler works with the following configurations: |
| * Linux: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets |
| * MacOS: x86 and x86_64 hosts and targets |
| * Windows: x86 hosts and targets |
| |
| * Cross compilation / multi-target configuration supported. |
| |
| * Preliminary API-documentation and package-management tools included. |
| |
| Known issues: |
| |
| * Documentation is incomplete. |
| |
| * Performance is below intended target. |
| |
| * Standard library APIs are subject to extensive change, reorganization. |
| |
| * Language-level versioning is not yet operational - future code will |
| break unexpectedly. |
