2022-02-02: Fuzion February Update

Hi,

Here is this month's update:

• FOSDEM
  • Three talks on Fuzion have been accepted:
    • Fuzion Language Update
    • Fuzion: A New Language For The OpenJDK Unifying Java's Concepts
    • Designing a new Language for Safety: Fuzion
• Parser
  • improved handling of expressions in parentheses and chained .-calls extending over multiple lines
• Front End
  • significant speed-up of fz command through
    • use of pre-compiled module files
    • caching and similar optimization
  • Support for adding inner features even to external modules, e.g. i32.postfix ! to calculate factorials on all i32 values as in 4!.
• base lib
  • Renamed 'List' as 'Sequence' to avoid confusion with Lisp-style head/tail 'list'.
• IDE
  • released v0.4.0 of vscode extension
  • enhanced diagnostics: marking unused features, naming suggestion for features
  • display simple call graph of feature to get an understanding of callers and callees more quickly, see png image
• flang.dev website
  • Added documentation of .fum file format
  • Added browsable Fuzion APIs.
  • Updated playground
  • Completely changed Tutorial section on Type Checks and Casts
  • Added Tutorial section on Lazy Evaluation
  • Added Design section on Currying and Partial Application
  • Added Design section on Use of case and underscore in identifiers
  • Several updates in idioms and examples
• Benchmarks
  • ongoing

Cheers,

--Fridtjof.