Hamler 0.5 Released

• fix the happy version bug #464 hamler-lang/purescript#85
• inline the typeClass dictionary as much as possible #466 hamler-lang/purescript#87
• support erlang/otp 24 #468

Hamler 0.4 Released

• use cabal to build hamler. we can use haskell-language-server to develop hamler.
• add '-e' parameter to 'hamler build' command. hamler can generate erlang source code

Hamler 0.3 Released

Highlights:

• add Project Layout paragraph
• new Record update syntax
• add Read type class & implement for basic datatype
• add Parsec & JSON Parser
• add Reader, State & Writer Monad
• add Distributed.GlobalGroup module
• add EVal to pack all Erlang value
• add function to get & convert time in Time module
• add Data.Identity module

Enhancements:

• add more function for List module
• add more function for Monad module
• remove return of Monad type class
• implement Foldable & Traversable for Either, Map, OrdDict, OrdSets, Result & Set
• add constructor for Edge & Vertex in Digraph module
• add more function for Binary module
• add childSpecError for Supervisor module

Bug Fixes:

• fix Error test fail when []
• fix CI #446
• fix {ok} stand for Unit not ok
• fix IO () returns nothing in Digraph module
• fix Void defination

Hamler 0.2.2 Released

Highlights:

• Add tests for more libraries and fix bugs
• Fix command 'hamler test' #422
• Add environment variable 'HAMLER_HOME' #423
• More instances for some type classes

Enhancements:

• Add tests for libraries such as Timer, Mnesia, ETS, UDP, Atomics, and System
  #415 #404 #403 #397 #400 #408 #407 #405 #402 #411 #406

• Add the hamler test command, the user runs the test through this command #424

• Add the environment variable'HAMLER_HOME', users can use it to specify the location of the hamler library #425

• Add typeclass for Array, Maybe #399

• More types add type class instances #410 #414

• Add an instance of Testable to IO instead of checkIO function #398

Bug Fixes:

• Fix bad "receive .. after" syntax type #416
• Fix missing binary pattern match syntax #413
• Fix crash of ets efold function #401
• Fix other bugs #417 #426 #421 #409

Hamler 0.2.1 Released

Highlights:

Upgrade CoreErlang for compatibility with Erlang/OTP R23.

Enhancements:

• Improve quick check library (e.g. add more Arbitrary instance)

  Github PR: #357

• Change binary pattern match syntax

  Github PR: #362

• Add tests for libraries under Data and Control

  Github PR:

  #366

  #373

  #383

  #393

• Add try catch catchException functions

  Github PR: #367

• Improve printf and add corresponding documentation

  Github PR: #370

• Add Diagraph library

  Github PR: #375

Bug Fixes:

• Fix 'receive...after' syntax layout bug

  Github PR: #371

• fix(String): fix unicode String encode bug

  Github PR: #381

Hamler 0.2 Released

Version 0.2

Release Date: 2020-08-06

Language/Libraries

Highlights:

• Add Control lib including Control.Application, Control.Behaviour, Control.Distributed, Control.Process. Examples of these lib are illustrated in the documentation.

  • Control.Behaviour implements corresponding generic behaviours in Erlang, including gen_server, genEvent and genStatem. Supervisor Behaviours are also implemented.
  • Control.Application implements OTP application
  • Control.Distributed implements Erlang distributed
  • Control.Process implements Erlang process API

• Add Database lib

  • ETS
  • DETS
  • Mnesia

• Add Simplified Hamler-version QuickCheck lib

Enhancements:

• Add Operators (>>>) (<<<) for functions and add some operators for binaries
• Add 'Data.Term' datatype
• Add VM module
• Add FilePath module
• Add Data.Foldable
• Add Digraph and Array modules
• Add printf function

Exploratory Enhancements:

• Add an Network lib
• Add an Logger lib

Bug Fixes:

• Fix FFI with IO Effect
• Fix wrongly defined IO monad

Compiler

Enhancements:

• Add annotation to core Erlang AST, and rewrite parser and pretty-printer
• Add new atom syntax
• Add new receive syntax, similar to receive in Erlang, the initial version has some layout problem which is fixed.
• Complete record syntax and remove old record syntax
• Add an option "-e -s" for "hamler repl" to specify the ebin directory
• Add support for multi ebin directories when use "hamler repl"
• Add new error type
• Add check for functions with duplicate names
• Some optimization

Bug Fixes:

• Fix display warning error
• Fix compile time completeness warning

Documentation/Examples:

• Add Demo
• Add Chapter 10 Message Passing Concurrency, 11 OTP Behaviours, 12 Node and Distrubuted Erlang in guides

Hamler 0.1.3 Released

Version 0.1.3

Release Date: 2020-06-24

Enhancements:

• Allow tuple to have any number of elements
  Github PR:hamler-lang/purescript#50

• Allow hex representation to start with both 0X or 0x
  Github PR:hamler-lang/purescript#46

• Add otherwise as a keyword
  Github PR:hamler-lang/purescript#43

• Add “-o” “-e” “-s” options for hamler repl
  Github PR:#208

Bug Fixes:

• Fix the issue that guards in the function definition cannot work
  Github PR:#205

• Fix the issue of file path stitching error
  Github PR:#202

Documentation:

• Update FFI

• Add documents about differences from Erlang

• Add documents about data type mapping from Hamler to Erlang

  Github repo:https://github.com/hamler-lang/documentation

Hamler 0.1.2 Released

Version 0.1.2

Release Date: 2020-06-17

Enhancements:

• Change String type to a list of Char
  Github PR: hamler-lang/purescript#41

• Allow configuration of installation directory location
  Github PR:#182

• Support top-level matching syntax in repl
  Github PR: hamler-lang/purescript#43

• Support let binding in repl
  Github PR: hamler-lang/purescript#45

• Add >>= in Prelude
  Github PR: #166

• Add docker image and Linux installation package (rpm and deb)
  Github PR: #193

Bug Fixes:

• Fix the issue that command "hamler repl" only runs in hamler folder
  Github PR: hamler-lang/purescript#44

• Fix the issue that hamler does not run on erlang/otp 23.0
  Github PR: #180

• Fix the issue that 'filter' ffi does not work
  Github PR: #191

• Fix the issue that no completeness check for pattern match on list and tuple
  Github PR:
  hamler-lang/purescript#37
  hamler-lang/purescript#38
  hamler-lang/purescript#39

Documentation:

• Update README and now it has features and design sections

• Add documents about differences between Hamler and PureScript/Haskell

• Add documents on foreign function interface

• Add a draft of future tutorial book

• Add a list FAQ and answers

  Github repo: https://github.com/hamler-lang/documentation

Hamler 0.0.1 Released

• First release of Hamler Programming Language.
• The compiler is based on purescript v0.13.6.