Changelog

v0.1.0

What's Included

• + Full lexer with all keywords, operators, string/number/bool literals, and comment stripping
• + Recursive descent parser producing a typed AST
• + Static type checker with full inference for local variables
• + LLVM IR codegen via llvmlite — compiles to native Windows x64 executables
• + JIT execution mode (vexel run) for fast iteration
• + Primitive types: int, float, str, bool, null
• + Variables with let and const, full assignment and compound operators
• + Functions with typed parameters and return types, first-class values
• + Structs with fields and methods
• + Enums with variant data
• + Interfaces with impl X for Y syntax
• + Arrays with indexing and length()
• + For loops: for-range, for-each, for-enumerate
• + While loops with break and continue
• + Match statements on enum variants and type patterns
• + Lambdas and closures
• + Generics [T] on functions and structs
• + try/catch error handling with string error values
• + assert with optional message
• + import and import...as module system
• + type alias declarations
• + Mark-and-sweep garbage collector
• + SDL2 first-class support: window, event loop, drawing, color, delay
• + Built-in functions: print, len, str_to_int, int_to_str, push, pop, rand
• + VS Code syntax highlighting extension
• + Windows standalone vexel.exe (PyInstaller bundle, no install required)
• + Line-number error messages for all type and syntax errors

Known Issues in This Release

• ! Linux and macOS binaries not yet available
• ! No standard library beyond built-in functions
• ! No package manager or project scaffolding tool
• ! Error messages for certain code patterns could be more descriptive
• ! No language server (LSP) or IDE autocomplete support yet
• ! Closures cannot capture mutable variables from outer scopes