Changelog

Work In Progress

  • Renamed Puffs to Wuffs.
  • Ship as a “single file C library”
  • Added a skipgendeps flag.
  • Added a nullptr literal and nptr T type.
  • Added io_bind and io_limit keywords.
  • Added a use keyword.
  • Added a yield keyword.
  • Made the return value mandatory; added ok literal.
  • Restricted var statements to the top of functions.
  • Dropped the = RHS out of var x T = RHS.
  • Changed func out-type from struct to bare type.
  • Renamed the implicit in variable to args.
  • Added an implicit coroutine_resumed variable.
  • Added std/adler32, std/crc32 and std/gzip.
  • Spun std/lzw out of std/gif.
  • Spun std/zlib out of std/flate.
  • Let the std/zlib decoder ignore checksums.
  • Renamed std/flate to std/deflate.
  • Renamed != to <>; ! is now only for impure functions.
  • Renamed ~+ to ~mod+; added ~mod-, ~sat+ and ~sat-.
  • Removed &^.
  • Renamed $(etc) to [etc].
  • Renamed [N] T and [] T types to array[N] T and slice T.
  • Renamed buf1, reader1, etc to io_buffer, io_reader, etc.
  • Renamed u32, io_reader, etc to base.u32, base.io_reader, etc.
  • Renamed unread_u8? to undo_byte!; added can_undo_byte.
  • Renamed some decode? methods to decode_io_writer?.
  • Replaced = try foo with =? foo.
  • Prohibited effect-ful subexpressions.
  • Redesigned iterate blocks.
  • Added {frame,image,pixel}_config and pixel_buffer types.
  • Added a reset method.
  • Added peek_uxx, skip_fast and write_fast_uxx methods.
  • Renamed some read_uxx methods as read_uxx_as_uyy.
  • Added I/O positions.
  • Added extra fields (uninitialized internal buffers) to structs.
  • Tweaked how marks and limits work.
  • Supported animated (not just single frame) and interlaced GIFs.
  • Marked some internal status codes as private.
  • Removed closed-for-read/write built-in status codes.
  • Changed the string messages for built-in status codes.
  • Changed error "foo" to "#foo" or base."#bar".
  • Added warnings as another status code category.
  • Made the status type a const char *, not an int32_t.
  • Disallowed __double_underscore prefixed names.
  • Moved the base38 package from lang/base38 to lib/base38.
  • Added a stand-alone lib/interval package.
  • Added fuzz tests.
  • Added WUFFS_CONFIG__MODULES.
  • Added WUFFS_CONFIG__STATIC_FUNCTIONS.
  • Added some C++ convenience methods.
  • Added some Go and Rust benchmarks.
  • Made struct implementations private (opaque pointers).
  • Sped up the mimic_deflate_xxx benchmarks.

2017-11-16

Updated on March 2019.