ArkScript v4 pre-release 0.1

[SuperFola]

[4.0.0-0.1] - 2022-11-28

Added

• more tests for the io builtins
• added lines and code coloration in the error context
• new dependency: fmtlib

Changed

• instructions are on 4 bytes: 1 byte for the instruction, 1 byte of padding, 2 bytes for an immediate argument
• enhanced the bytecode reader and its command line interface
• added the padding/instruction/argumentation values when displaying instructions in the bytecode reader
• fixed underline bug in the error context
• the str:format functions now expects strings following this syntax: https://fmt.dev/latest/syntax.html
• more documentation about the compiler implementation
• more documentation about the virtual machine
• closures can be now be compared field per field: (= closure1 closure2) will work only if they have the same fields (name) and if the values match

Removed

• removed unused NodeType::Closure
• removing the custom string, replacing it with std::string (the format engine of the custom string had a lot of memory leaks)
• removing the custom string, replacing it with std::string (the format engine of the custom string had a lot of memory leaks)
• Utils::digPlaces and Utils::decPlaces got removed as they were no longer needed
• removed deprecated code (list:removeAt, ark executable now replaced by arkscript)

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