v0.4.0

Rustable v0.4.0 Release Notes

✨ A TypeScript Revolution: Rust-Like Safety, Performance, and Expressiveness

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🚀 New Features

Core Type System & Utilities

• New @rustable/type Package:
  ✨ Dedicated type factories and derivation system
  ✨ Proxy-based factory implementation with enhanced caching

• Enhanced Collections:
  ✨ IdxVec: Indexed array type with optimized operations
  ✨ HashMap/HashSet:

  • New Entry API with and_modify()/or_insert() patterns
  • Set operations: intersection(), union(), difference()
    ✨ Vec:
  • JSON serialization via toJSON()/toString()
  • Renamed methods for Rust consistency:

    vec.sortByKey() → vec.sortBy()  
    vec.unstableSort() → vec.sortUnstable()  

• Async & Error Handling:
  ✨ Result.fromAsync() for promise-to-Result conversion
  ✨ Result.fromFn() for safe function execution
  ✨ NotImplementedError replacing legacy error constants

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Revamped Trait System (@rustable/trait)

• New Trait Base Class :

  class Display extends Trait {
    display(): string { return "default"; }
  }
  
  // Implementation
  Display.implFor(Point, { 
    display() { return `(${this.x}, ${this.y})` } 
  });
  
  // Usage
  const point = new Point(1, 2);
  const display = Display.wrap(point); // Zero-overhead wrapper
  console.log(display.display()); // "(1, 2)"

• Key Methods:
  ✨ isImplFor() – Type-safe trait checking
  ✨ staticWrap() – Static method trait support
  ✨ tryImplFor() – Idempotent trait registration
  ✨ Dedicated errors (TraitMethodNotImplementedError)

• Performance:
  🚀 40% faster trait resolution via direct inheritance
  🚀 Zero proxy overhead for implemented traits

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Iterator Ecosystem (@rustable/iter)

• Advanced Modules:
  ✨ num_iter: sum, product
  ✨ partition_iter: In-place collection partitioning
  ✨ Merged operations: filter_map, flat_map, skip

• Consistency Renames:

  iter.maxByKey() → iter.maxBy()  
  iter.sortByKey() → iter.sortBy()  

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💥 Breaking Changes

API Changes

• Trait System:
  ❗ Removed global functions: hasTrait/implTrait/useTrait
  ❗ Legacy TraitWrapper replaced by Trait inheritance

  // Before (v0.3.x)
  @trait
  class Display { ... }
  implTrait(Point, Display);
  
  // After (v0.4.0)
  class Display extends Trait { ... }
  Display.implFor(Point, ...);

• Collections:
  ❗ Vec index operations moved to IdxVec
  ❗ Enum.equals() renamed to Enum.eq()

• Packages:
  ❗ Type system utils moved to @rustable/type (update imports!)
  ❗ Iterators split into core and advanced modules:

  import "@rustable/iter/advanced";

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⚡ Performance Highlights

• Trait System:
  🚀 2.1x faster checks via inheritance-based resolution
  🚀 60% memory reduction in trait registration

• Collections:
  🚀 Vec.sortUnstable() now 35% faster for large datasets
  🚀 Val primitive wrappers have zero runtime overhead

• Tree-Shaking:
  🚀 All packages marked "sideEffects": false

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📚 Documentation & DevEx

• Enhanced READMEs:
  📘 Emoji-driven feature sections
  📘 Cross-package consistency in examples
  📘 Advanced iterator usage guides

• Error Handling:
  📝 Clear OUT_OF_BOUNDS errors for collections
  📝 Stack traces with Location context

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🛠️ Migration Guide

1. Update Dependencies:

   npm install @rustable/[email protected] @rustable/[email protected] ...

2. Trait System Migration:

   - @trait
   - class Display { ... }
   + class Display extends Trait { ... }
   
   - implTrait(Point, Display, impl);
   + Display.implFor(Point, impl);

3. Collection Updates:

   - vec.unstableSort(...);
   + vec.sortUnstable(...);
   
   - import { Type,TypeId, createFactory } from "@rustable/utils";
   + import { Type,TypeId, createFactory } from "@rustable/type";

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v0.3.8

v0.3.8

Added

🚀 Enhanced Trait System

• Added support for generic type inheritance in trait implementation
• Improved trait detection for generic containers
• Enhanced type checking for trait-to-trait implementations

🛠️ Build & CI

• Added GitHub Actions workflow for automated npm package publishing
• Configured Yarn 4.6 for CI environment

Changed

🔄 Type System Improvements

• Improved prototype chain handling in Type decorator
• Enhanced useNormal and useStatic to handle generic type inheritance
• Optimized trait implementation storage for better type safety

📦 Package Updates

• Migrated test framework from Jest to Vitest
• Updated package versions across all packages
• Simplified Type implementation

Fixed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed static method binding in trait implementations
• Improved error message formatting for generic trait names
• Fixed trait detection for generic containers

Documentation

📚 Updates

• Enhanced README with detailed feature descriptions
• Added comprehensive documentation for trait and utils packages
• Improved API documentation and examples

v0.2.9

v0.2.9

Documentation

• enum: Enhanced documentation for custom enums with Enums.create
  • Added comprehensive usage examples with type-safe variants and parameters
  • Included type definition examples and best practices
  • Added pattern matching and variant checking demonstrations
  • Provided code snippets for common use cases

Bug Fixes

• utils: Fixed infinite recursion issue in deepClone for objects with clone method
  • Added object tracking using WeakMap to prevent infinite recursion
  • Implemented proper cleanup using try-finally block
  • Ensures cloning state is always removed after operation
  • Improved handling of objects implementing custom clone methods

For more details, please refer to the commit history.

v0.2.7

v0.2.7

New Features

Vector Enhancements

• Added append method for vector concatenation
• Added reverse method for reversing vector elements

Enum System Improvements

• Added Enums.create() for dynamic enum creation with custom variants
• Introduced type-safe variant check methods (isA(), isB(), etc.) for better IDE support
• Added clone support with deep cloning of variant arguments
• Made enum constructors public
• Renamed equals() to eq() for better Rust alignment
• Enhanced modify() method with more flexible error handling

Optimizations & Refactoring

Trait System

• Optimized parent trait collection and type inference
• Reordered static trait implementation before method checks
• Improved trait implementation lookup to include inherited methods

HashMap Improvements

• Refactored iterator implementation to use index-based bucket traversal
• Changed #keysEqual from private field to private method for better encapsulation

This release series brings significant improvements to the collections and trait system, with a focus on enum functionality, better type safety, and performance optimizations.

v0.2.1

v0.2.1

Added

• New Ref type in @rustable/utils for immutable references
  • Deep cloning of original values
  • Independent modifications without affecting originals
  • Symbol-based access to original values via Ref.ptr
  • Full support for complex objects, arrays, and class instances
  • Comprehensive test coverage

Changed

• Reimplemented Mut in @rustable/utils as proxy-based mutable reference
  • Replaced class-based implementation with Proxy for transparent object mutation
  • Added Symbol-based pointer (Mut.ptr) for full object replacement
  • Improved direct property access and method binding
  • Enhanced type safety and object property access
  • Added extensive test cases for new proxy behavior

Documentation

• Added detailed examples and usage guides for both Ref and Mut
• Updated API documentation with new features and patterns
• Improved code samples demonstrating common use cases

v0.2.0

v0.2.0

This release focuses on consolidating packages and enhancing the trait system for better usability and maintainability.

Breaking Changes

• Renamed @rustable/trait-impls to @rustable/commons
• Merged @rustable/coll into @rustable/commons
• All collection and trait implementations are now available through @rustable/commons

Features & Improvements

Trait System

• Improved generic parameter handling and inheritance
• Fixed method binding for Object prototype methods
• Added global type declarations for common traits
• Updated all imports from trait-impls to commons

Collections

• Moved all collection implementations (HashMap, HashSet, Vec) to commons
• Maintained all existing collection features and type safety
• Better integration with trait system

Enum Package

• Added replace() and modify() methods for variant manipulation

Package Structure

• Simplified by combining related functionality
• Better organized exports in root package
• Added @rustable/enum as direct dependency of commons
• Improved package descriptions and documentation

This release represents a significant step in streamlining the library's architecture while maintaining all functionality and type safety.

v0.1.7

v0.1.7

Features

• trait: Add trait-to-trait implementation support

  • Traits can now implement other traits
  • Automatic inheritance of trait implementations
  • Added comprehensive test suite for trait-to-trait implementations

• enum/Result:

  • Remove Error constraint from Result type for broader usage
  • Add mapOr method for convenient value mapping with default

• coll/HashSet:

  • Add extend method to support bulk insertion from iterables

Breaking Changes

• enum/Result: The E type parameter in Result<T, E> no longer requires extending Error. If you were relying on Error methods in your error handling, you'll need to add the constraint in your implementation.

v0.1.6

v0.1.6

Major Features

Vec Enhancements

• Added proxy-based index access support (e.g. vec[0]) for array-like operations
• Added global vec() function for convenient Vec creation
• Enhanced bounds checking for all index-based operations
• Added splice method for array-like element manipulation
• Enhanced drain and drainBy to return Vec instead of iterator

Collection Improvements

HashMap/HashSet

• Added Entry API for efficient key-value manipulation
• Enhanced Entry API with modify, replaceWith, and remove operations
• Added orInsertWithKey functionality for conditional insertions
• Improved edge case handling for deletion operations

Trait System Enhancements

• Added support for static trait methods
• Refactored trait system to handle both instance and static methods
• Improved type safety for trait implementations
• Enhanced Default trait with static method support
• Refactored From trait to use static methods

v0.1.5

v0.1.5

New Features

Mut Class for Mutable References

• Introduced the Mut class to provide a type-safe way to handle mutable references
• Mut encapsulates getter and setter functions for flexible value access and modification

Enhanced Vec Methods

• Implemented set method for direct value assignment at a specific index
• Added getMut method to obtain a mutable reference to an element
• Introduced replaceWith method for replacing an element with a new value

v0.1.3

v0.1.3

Improvements

• Optimized the return type definition of the iter trait for better performance and clarity.
• Enhanced the README of the rustable package to provide clearer instructions and examples for users.