v0.7.0 Jade Release

Release Notes for Jade (0.7.0)

• Started on April 24th 2024.
• Released on July 6th 2024.

New Features

• New Array and Float Vector semantics using [ ] and { } respectively.

  • Done in commits 4f7831d and a586b3e.

• Iterators for Array and Float Vectors.

  • Done in commits 416e915, 2311323 and fa0b305

Other Changes

• Fixed Vec3 builtin functions that were broken in v0.6.0 7fbc1b6
• Changed default hashing algorithm to cityhash64: 8734e1b
• Added helpful boolean macros for object type checking in builtin functions (cstd): 55585a50
• Updated MufiZ's interpret error to be treated as a Zig error when running a file: 4f7f9fd
• Adjusted Table implementation to use lazy deletion instead of tombstoning: bddabfa
• Updated Zig version to v0.13.0: 788fbf2
• Updated to clap v0.9.1
• Added Arm SIMD support using Neon intrinsics fa0b305
• Added Test Suites that brought plenty of fixes to builtins
• Switched stdlib_error to make use of runtimeError so that it can also
  provide line numbers to the user.

Added Builtin Functions

• assert: Checks if the given condition is true, if not, it panics.
• simd_stat: Checks if SIMD is supported on the current platform.
• iter: Creates an iterator from an array or a float vector.
• next: Advances the iterator and returns the next element.
• has_next: Checks if the iterator has more elements.
• reset: Resets the iterator to the beginning.
• skip: Skips the next n elements.

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0