dev-2025-03

New Language Features

New Compiler Improvements

• Name Canonicalization
  • Deterministic Name Mangling Rules for Symbols (Procedures, Variables, Debug Types, etc)
• typeid layout change
  • Always 8-bytes in size
  • Represents a hash of the canonical name for the type
• Improved generation times for odin doc
• Allow -show-timings for odin doc
• Very minor parser improvements to catch weird edges cases
• intrinsics.simd_extract_msbs
• intrinsics.simd_extract_lsbs
• for x in bit_set will use a count leading zeros intrinsics internally rather than checking each bit manually
• General bug fixes for LLVM backend

New Packages

• vendor:sdl3/image

Package Improvements

• Update vendor:wgpu to v24
• Improved documentation for core:simd
• Minor fixes to SDL3 bindings
• Support use of * in format strings without an index
• NS.SavePanel_URL fix
• Support %b for rune
• os2 fixes
  • Recursive directory walker
  • Fix race conditions on Linux
  • os2.random_string to use context.random_generator