Wren 0.3.0 released!

bot · 15 September 2020 00:55

Wren 0.3.0 has been released.

Blog

Read the 0.3.0 release blog for more details, and plans for 0.4.0.

Note You can try Wren on Try Wren – Wren, and Wren CLI now has downloads.

0.3.0 changelog

0.3.0 is a fairly specific release, aimed at fixing build issues across platforms,
streamlining the process for new users and making embedding easier.
This is a stepping stone for working on language features and improving the VM,
hacking on the docs and the VM is simpler than ever!

Builds now work out of the box on all primary platforms.
Previously there was issues on Windows and other platforms due to unix-ey workflows being the default.

All the python scripts have also been fixed and updated (to python 3), and work consistently
across all platforms out of the box too (including the tests, benchmarks, metrics etc).
Like before, there was some things that didn’t hold up on Windows or Mac. Fixed!

A lot of work has been done to also clarify the distinction between the CLI project and the VM,
as well as move the CLI to it’s own repo!
This removes a lot of code that wasn’t being used, and also been clarified the project structure.

Docs have also had a clean up, and a new page to try Wren directly on the doc page was added.

Language/VM

CLI moved to own repo

Use premake for project generation, see projects/

Fix builds across platforms. “Just works” on all primary platforms.

Fix amalgamated script generator and amalgamated build

Fix unicode parsing and other issues in all python scripts

All python scripts are python3 now, and run on all platforms correctly

Test runner isolated and unified for VM tests

Remove SASS and Pygments requirements from docs, just python now

Updated docs to clarify VM/CLI split

Added Try page for running wren code in the docs

Link: Release 0.3.0 · wren-lang/wren · GitHub