Blade Programming Language v0.0.73 Release

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Good new everyone,

The Blade programming language has officially reached version 0.0.73. This is an alpha release with lots of new developments.

• Lots of bug fixes and memory optimisations.
• Now you can run an entire module or directory of source code - E.g. blade myappdir.
• You can now access and update module entries using the index operator.
• Support use of Increment (++) and Decrement (--) operators in expression.
• Modules are now callable like function and classes so long as they declares an init function. The init function is a function with the same name as the name of the module declared within the module. You can cleverly select any other function as your init function by renaming the import using the as keyword into the name of another function in the module.
• Introducing the array module - A library that provides extended array functionalities for supporting various integer array types such as Int16Array, UInt64Array and more.
• Introducing struct module - A module to facilitate data transformation between Blade types and C structures via packing and unpacking.
• Introducing zlib module - A module providing zlib compression and decompression functions.
• Introducing zip module - A library for creating and manipulating zip archives.
• Introducing clib module - A foreign function module that allow interacting with C shared libraries directly from Blade .
• Added cookies, authentication and files support to http library requests.
• Http status string now in human friendly format
• Fixed same name selective import failure bug.

Please kindly stay tuned on the website as we'll be updating the documentation to reflect the new version as well as documenting the yet-to-be-documented bytes built-in module in the coming days as rapid as we can.

Also remember:

We are still actively looking for more contributors — all kinds of contributors are welcomed.

Kindly checkout the new version and open issues if you encounter a bug. If you can fix one, kindly open a pull request.

Also remember to give us a star.