Razen Changelogs

# Razen v0.1.76 ## Performance Boost & Enhanced Tooling **Release Date**: June 7, 2025 **Status**: Beta --- > **Notice:** > Razen's logging functions have been renamed to avoid naming conflicts. ## What's New ### Performance & Installation Improvements - **Faster Installation**: Completely revamped the installation process to be significantly faster and more lightweight - **LLVM Integration**: Added experimental LLVM support, enabling more powerful optimizations and capabilities - **Reduced Footprint**: Optimized binary size and runtime memory usage for better performance ### Logging Library Updates - **Renamed Log Functions**: Updated logging function names to avoid conflicts and improve clarity: - `info` → `infolog` - `warn` → `warnlog` - `error` → `errorlog` - `debug` → `debuglog` - **Backward Compatibility**: Added deprecation warnings for old function names ### VS Code Extension Updates - **Improved Syntax Highlighting**: Better support for new language features - **Enhanced Code Completion**: Smarter suggestions based on context - **Performance Optimizations**: Faster parsing and analysis --- ## Technical Improvements - **Compiler Optimizations**: New optimization passes for better runtime performance - **Memory Management**: Reduced memory usage across the board - **Build System**: Streamlined build process with better dependency management - **LLVM Backend**: Experimental support for LLVM-based compilation --- ## Migration Guide Update any code using the old logging function names to use the new names: ```razen lib loglib; # Old way (deprecated) # loglib::info("This is a message"); # loglib::warn("This is a warning"); # loglib::error("This is an error"); # loglib::debug("Debug information"); # New way show "Info log: " + loglib::infolog("This is an info message"); show "Warning log: " + loglib::warnlog("This is a warning message"); show "Error log: " + loglib::errorlog("This is an error message"); show "Debug log: " + loglib::debuglog("This is a debug message"); ``` --- ## Example: Testing Log Library ```razen lib loglib; show "Testing Log Library:"; show "Info log: " + loglib::infolog("This is an info message"); show "Warning log: " + loglib::warnlog("This is a warning message"); show "Error log: " + loglib::errorlog("This is an error message"); show "Debug log: " + loglib::debuglog("This is a debug message"); ``` --- ## Special Thanks Thanks to the Razen community for your continued support and feedback! --- ## Full Changelog - Added: Experimental LLVM backend support - Changed: Logging function names updated to avoid conflicts - Improved: Installation process is now faster and more reliable - Improved: Memory usage and performance optimizations - Updated: VS Code extension with better tooling support - Fixed: Various minor bugs and stability issues - Maintained: Backward compatibility with deprecation warnings/errors for old function names