Version 3.2

• Small code improvements
• Added @import directive to replace import() and require()
• Fixed lines being read wrongly by the scanner
• Fixed code failing to compile without the interpreter feature on
• Fixed ?> not being properly deprecated
• Fixed pseudo variables not working correctly with ..=, &&=, ||= and ??=
• Fixed local a = (...).x y = ... being considered invalid by the parser
• Fixed errors being only half printed to stderr, while the rest was printed in stdout
• Added rust-version field in Cargo.toml
• Removed remnants of Clue 2.X's macros
• Added safe calling (?()
• Improved error messages, they now include the column
• Remade the way safe indexing is compiled
• When importing a module, it gets the module path as the ... arg
• Removed panics in the compiler
• Documented the codebase
• Clue can now be installed from the AUR
• Clue can now be installed from a .deb
• Clue can now be installed from a .rpm

Version 3.1

• Fixed =>, <= and >= not being ignored by pseudo variables
• --pathiscode now saves the output to a file if the name is defined
• --pathiscode shows the output automatically (like in previous versions) when the output was not gonna be saved
• --output now has a short version -o
• ContinueMode now follow the standard Rust syntax (CONTINUE -> Continue)
• Added --target flag to use preset flag values for specific Lua versions
• --continue now ignores casing
• --jitbit is now deprecated and replaced by --bitwise
• With --bitwise Clue can now output valid 5.4 bitwise code
• --base's short version was changed to -B
• --continue=luajit is now deprecated and replaced by --continue=goto
• Removed dummy --types flag
• Fixed nested directives breaking
• Fixed comments removing newlines
• Fixed LuaJIT's bit library not being loaded in the output even when --jitbit (now --bitwise) was set
• Fixed floor division not compiling correctly
• Added usedindex metamethod (--target=blua only)
• Improved Code struct
• Added @iflua and @version directives
• Added a library interface for clue_core

Version 3.0.1

• Fixed some functions of the cli being exposed as a library
• Fixed safe indexing to function call resulting in an error if the safe indexing fails (making it not safe at all...)
• Fixed the custom output file name being ignored when compiling a single file
• Fixed the output file not being saved where Clue was called
• When compiling a directory Clue will print more readable paths (for finished/errored files)

Version 3.0

• Reorganized repository using a Cargo workspace
• Refactored arg parsing to not use unsafe blocks
• Refactored casing of function names (from PascalCase to snake_case)
• Refactored the entire compiler generally
• Refactored the way the parser reads tokens to improve performance
• General refactors and optimizations in all the code
• All internal variables are now named _internalX in the output (X being the var id)
• Fixed global a; causing invalid output
• Fixed match blocks inside expressions not properly parsing next tokens
• Fixed Clue skipping a newline inside normal strings when \ was right before it
• Fixed local a; = ... being valid syntax
• Fixed output sometimes breaking when calling functions in some specific cases
• Fixed { [...].a = ... } being valid syntax
• Implemented multi-threaded compilation for compiling directories
• Clue is now installed with CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO by default
• Improved how strings and the output are handled
• --execute can now be disabled on install
• Added rpmalloc to improve performance, can be disabled when installing
• Added a precompiler
• Pseudo variables are now handled by the precompiler
• Fixed ternary not working with pseduo variables
• Deprecated macro and replaced it with @define and @macro
• Added lib.rs and env.rs
• Deprecated ?= and := and replaced them with &&= and ||=
• Added ?? and ??=
• Added table destructuring (local {a, b, ...} = ...)
• Added and slightly improved examples
• Replaced HashMaps with AHashMaps
• Minor cleanings in the code
• Removed winres as a build dependency (icon unnecessary for something ran in the console)
• When ran Clue will now set the env varible CLUE_VERSION (mainly to be used in the preprocessor)
• Added len, pairs, ipairs and close meta methods
• Added criterion for benchmarking
• Slightly improved and added new error messages
• Clue now uses VecDeque instead of LinkedList

Version 2.5.3

• Fixed --execute not working with --pathiscode
• Fixed a compiled directory not returning what main.clue returns when loaded externally
• Formatted code

This should, hopefully, be the last 2.5.X release, and the next version should be 3.0.

Version 2.5.2

• Fixed a || {} (and similar cases) not being valid syntax
• Fixed --debug not working properly by remaking most of it
• Improved --execute's start and finish messages
• Updated struct, extern and constructor's error messages
• Added warning for macro

Version 2.5.1

• Added --execute flag
• Compiled code can now be executed from Clue itself with the new flag
• Fixed string scanning when the string ends with // (by progmboy)

Version 2.5

• Fixed the compiler adding an additional .lua when the output name already ended in .lua
• Added custom bases
• Added --base flag for using custom bases
• The default base will now check for main.lua before loading it
• Improved the way flags that are not used by the actual compiler itself are handled
• Renamed --debugcomments to --debug
• Added an actual debugging system

Version 2.4.2

• Removed unused code
• Small code improvement
• Fixed raw strings generating invalid code with ]s and =s (examples: `]]`, `]=]`, ...)

Version 2.4.1

• Fixed match not being considered a valid right hand token
• Fixed bitwise NOT causing invalid syntax (a~b was considered valid)
• Fixed and improved raw strings parsing and compiling
• Fixed \", \' and \` resulting in an "Unterminated string" error
• Fixed table parsing
• Commas in tables are now optional without it being a bug