Based on Keep a Changelog.
- Logic programming.
- Dynamic delimited continuation operators.
- Conditions system.
- Object-oriented programming.
- Dynamic-binding and subject-oriented programming.
- Simple benchmarking machinery.
- Saturation arithmetic.
- Generic logging abstraction/machinery.
- Inline testing.
- Aspect-oriented programming.
- Context-oriented programming.
- Row polymorphism.
- Predicate-based polymorphism.
- Behavioral programming.
- Type-based multiple dispatch.
- Structured concurrency.
- Function trampolines.
- Agent model.
- Support for time-zones.
- Incremental computation.
- Functions with named parameters.
- Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).
- Variadic functions.
- Event-loop concurrency.
- Simplified polytypic programming.
- Re-licensed to MPL 2.0.
- Added source-tracking annotations when compiling for the JVM.
- Now doing implicit definition aliasing, instead of requiring explicit aliasing.
- New syntax for compiler extensions.
- Made labels (tags & slots) into normal definitions.
- Made the compiler's caching system sensitive to the build configuration.
- Leiningen plugin.
- Bootstrapping compiler.
- Custom licensing machinery.
- Inlined functions.
- Can pass configuration parameters from the build description to the compiler.
- Code selection based on configuration parameters.
- Code selection based on compiler version.
- (Experimental) extensible meta-compiler architecture.
- Export machinery to consume Lux code from host-language programs.
- Generalized/type-agnostic arithmetic.
- (Optional) faster (but unsafe) array-handling machinery.
- (Optional) faster (but unsafe) text-handling machinery.
- (Optional) faster (but unsafe) binary-handling machinery.
- Can now deploy releases with Aedifex.
- Extensible import syntax.
- Context-aware macros.
- Macro volabularies for more controlled macro-expansion.
- JVM compilation no longer relies on the ASM library.
- Friendlier syntax.
- No more automatic conversions of primitive types in JVM FFI.
- Now demanding mandatory loop names, instead of using default "again" name.
- Now taking into account both contravariance and covariance for mutable types in the standard library.
- Improved syntax for JVM interop.
- Programs are now explicit and first-class and the "main" program must be specified in an Aedifex
project.luxfile. - Macros are first-class values.
- Pattern-matching now supports matching against globally-defined constants.
- All (normal) macros in a pattern are now automatically expanded.
- Pattern-matching bug that allowed redundancies for primitives.
- Various bugs related to compiler extensions.
- Various JVM interop bugs.