In November 2023, MoonBit underwent Alpha testing. This post aims to introduce recent updates to MoonBit’s language and toolchain, along with applications developed using MoonBit.
Changes in MoonBit Language
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Optimized the compilation process for top-level functions without indirect calls, resulting in approximately a 14% improvement in compilation performance.
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Enhanced error recovery and reporting in the parser:
- Fixed the issue where top-level function declarations without parameters, such as
fn f2 {}, were allowed to compile without parentheses. Now, this will result in an error:
- Fixed the issue where top-level function declarations without parameters, such as
- Code that attempts to set visibility for individual constructors of an enum type will now result in an error:
priv enum T {
A(Int)
pub B(Int)
priv C(Int)
}
- Fixed issues in dead code analysis where unused types or fields were incorrectly reported as unused.