0.6.3

[xTrayambak]

Bali 0.6.3 is out. Yay. It has 49 commits made in the span of a week, and the codebase is now at 606 commits in total.

Call for Contributors

Hiya. I've been working on Bali alone for around 8 months. It's fun, but I must admit it's a bit tiring too.

I'm a student so I do not require any monetary support yet.

Hence, I'm asking anyone who wishes to contribute to the project to come forward and do so. You can join the Discord server to contact me directly, but if you're not a fan of that, you can use the Discussions tab in this repository.

You don't need to have any prior experience with this! I'll be more than glad to assist you with learning the internals of the Bali engine. You can start off with small contributions, and eventually you'll know the codebase just as well as I do. :^)

Fixes

• fix: codegen: getValueCaptures() now analyzes function calls
• fix: parser: don't blindly unpack option from parseAtom
• fix: parser: parse multiple arguments in function signature
• fix: vm: fix dynamically growing register reads
• fix: codegen: don't reset arguments before full load
• add: codegen: loadIRAtom now accepts undefined
• fix: codegen: LT/LTE mismatch
• fix: vm: correct CFIELD's broken semantics
• fix: GetMethod now respects bytecode/native segments
• fix: vm: RREG load undefined instead of empty object
• fix: codegen: fix some regressions
• fix: codegen: migrate Waste to new calling system
• fix: balde: don't parse line twice
• Removed Herobrine

Optimizations

• optimize: don't re-decode operations every execution
• fix: vm: don't perform unnecessary copying when decoding operation
• add: codegen: CopyValMut handles field resolution

Additions

• docs: bring docs up to date, part 1
• add: add support for Set type
• add: implement RequireInternalSlot
• add: add wasm tooling
• add: vm+codegen: binary greater or equal
• add: vm+codegen: binary lesser or equal
• docs: programming guidelines

Refactoring

• ref: generateIR is now split up into multiple functions and is no longer misleadingly named

Code Quality Improvements

• Bali is now using Nim compiler features like initialization proof and strict functions on the entire codebase.
• Bali's code is now checked against a static analyzer

Documentation

There are now programming style guidelines available for anyone who wishes to contribute to Bali.

The Major Improvements, in layman's terms.

Bali now no longer relies on hacky field resolution by a hardcoded object prototype when resolving fields in objects, so behaviour like:

var x = new String("Hello")

function thing(a) {
  console.log("modified toString function called :D")
}

x.toString = thing;
console.log(x.toString())
console.log("end")

works now. In the above source, our custom thing() function overwrites the base String.prototype.toString function, which leads to all other functions that invoke that method to invoke our custom function.

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This discussion was created from the release 0.6.3.