dev-2025-01

New Language Features

• #+feature dynamic-literals
  • All dynamic literals (maps and dynamic arrays) are disallowed by default to remove implicit allocations from Odin
  • If the user wants to allow this, it can be enabled on a per-file basis by adding the above "build tag"
  • Dynamic literals like the following:
    • [dynamic]int{1, 4, 9, 16}
    • map[string]int{"Apple" = 759, "Pear" = 128, "Gorilla" = 533}

Compiler Improvements

• ensure/ensure_contextless
  • Identical to assert/assert_contextless but is not removed with -disable-assert
• Remove viral #force_inline and #force_no_inline
  • Declaring a procedure with these tags would previously virally apply them to procedures called inside the subject procedure too, it now just affects the procedure it is applied to
• Fix bug with comparisons with big endian types
• Improve zeroing rules for resize_dynamic_array
• Add implicit broadcasting for #simd arrays
• map_entry (Docs)

New Packages

N/A

Package Improvements

• Fixes to vendor:raylib
  • Fixes to foreign imports after update to 5.5
  • Allow for custom WASM link libraries
• Allow custom WASM link libraries for vendor:box2d
• Add trunc to core:math/linalg/glsl
• Improvements to core:encoding/base32
• Update vendor:cgltf to 1.14
• Add xinput bindings to core:sys/windows
• Fix to matrix adjugate procedure