0.17.0

[Sija]

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🚧 !!! This is a bigger release containing many breaking changes !!! 🚧

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This release got pretty big and it would take a long time to gather all the changes, apologies for that.

Breaking Language Changes (check PRs for detailed changes)

• Syntax Changes #503
  • Allow multiple statements per block and added standalone block notation.
  • Promises changed to take a single parameter instead of two Promise(value).
  • Removed try, parallel, sequence, with, where, catch, finally and then language features.
  • Removed partial application language feature (conflicting with default arguments) until we can figure out a solution for the ambiguity.
  • Removed safe operators &. and &(.
  • Added block expressions.
  • Added optional await keyword to statements.
  • Added optional await keyword to the condition of case expressions.
  • Added the ability to define default values for function arguments.
  • Added the ability to create decoder functions using the decode feature by omitting the decodable object: decode as Array(String).
  • Records are now using : instead of =.
  • Added here document support:

    <<#MARKDOWN
    Renders markdown content to Html
    MARKDOWN
    
    <<-TEXT
    Text content which leaves leading indentation intact.
    TEXT
    
    <<~TEXT
    Text content which leaves trims leading indentation to the first line.
    TEXT
    

• The pipe operator |> now puts the left hand side value as the first argument instead of the last. Pipe as the first agument instead of the last. #571

Standard Library

There are too many changes to list here because of the standard library cleanup and pipe operator changes so consult the PRs #532 #503 and the API documentation if something doesn't work.

Language Server

• Fix 100% CPU in Language Server when receiving EOF from STDIN Fix 100% CPU in Language Server when receiving EOF from STDIN #573 @jansul

Housekeeping

• Maintain dependencies for GitHub Action @Sija
• Fix typos throughout the codebase @Sija
• Update CI workflows @Sija
• Drop support for Crystal versions (< 1.7.0) @Sija

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