2022-03-08: Fuzion March Update

Hi,

Here is this month's update:

• FOSDEM
  • About 300 participants watched one of the three Fuzion talks.
• Automatic monadic lifting
  Some progress in the design:
  • added handles.fz, a one-way monad for modifiable data, similar to Haskell's Data.IORef./li>
  • Added purely functional version of man-or-boy using handles.fz
  • My current expectation is that Fuzion could become a pure functional language that maintains most of the feeling and performance of a procedural language using one-way monads and automatic monadic lifting.
• Syntax
  • allow trailing comma in inline array: [1,2,3,]
• bug fixes
  • fixed major problem related to lifespan of outer instances and resulting in segfault in C backend (#168)
  • many smaller bugs fixed
• improvements in error messages
• base lib
  • conversions between integer types
  • string.split, string.isBlank

Cheers,

--Fridtjof.