2022-01-12: Fuzion January Update

Hi,

Here is this month's update:

• Front End / Middle End
  • Support for pre-compiled module file for base library
    • fz command now loads file modules/base.fum instead of parsing the sources
    • the result is a significant startup time improvement.
  • Fuzion source files now may contain several feature declarations
• Base library
  • feature List was renamed as Sequence to avoid mixing this up with list.
  • Merge many small source files into larger one, e.g., true.fz is now part of bool.fz.
• IDE integration:
  • update fuzion version in language server to work with the new modules (this decreased time for running all tests from ~30s to ~7s)
  • added installation instructions for vim editor
  • added github actions for building releases of fuzion, fuzion language server and vscode extension
• fuzion-lang.dev:
  • initial version of fuziondocs tool for generating documentation of standard library (to go online soon)
  • installation instructions for fuzion, fuzion language server and vscode extension (to go online soon)
• Conferences
  • Next month's FOSDEM has two accepted talks on Fuzion!
• Documentation
  • New target make doc in the fuzion sources creates documentation using asciidoc. This currently is used only for documenting the module file format, but this might be expanded.

Cheers,

--Fridtjof.