Borax
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Changelog

Every notable change to the language, the compiler, and the tooling around it — newest first.

2.3.4
Aug 4, 2026
Fixed

Import resolution and LSP fixes

  • Fixed — a Package Path Server race that could miss a newly added .bx file under src/main/borax/ until the project was reopened.
  • Fixed — borax/packagePaths now returns files nested more than one folder deep.
  • Fixed — cached import bytecode under .borax/tmp/imports/ was occasionally reused after a whitespace-only edit changed line numbers in error output.
2.3.0
Jun 12, 2026
Added

Language Server

  • Added — borax lsp -start / -stop launches or stops a project-scoped Language Server as a detached background process.
  • Added — standard LSP framing over a local TCP socket, with initialize, shutdown, exit, and a Borax-specific borax/packagePaths request for editor autocomplete.
  • Changed — starting a Language Server that's already running, or stopping one that isn't, now reports the existing state instead of erroring.
2.2.1
Apr 3, 2026
Fixed

NBT and validator fixes

  • Fixed — nbt read mis-parsed files written by nbt write when the serialized value was very small.
  • Fixed — the validator's "nested functions" error now points at the inner function line instead of the outer one.
  • Fixed — input(int(...)) no longer accepts non-numeric input silently as zero.
2.2.0
Feb 18, 2026
Added

Binary NBT format and typed input

  • Added — nbt write NAME to "file" and nbt read "file" into NAME, a minimal built-in binary format.
  • Added — input(name, "prompt"), input(int(age, "prompt")), and input(any()) for reading user input as a string, integer, or any type.
  • Added — every error is now written to its own timestamped log file under %USERPROFILE%\.borax\tmp\logs\, in addition to the console.
2.1.0
Nov 21, 2025
Added

JSON and project packaging

  • Added — native Gson-backed json parse, json get ... into, and json say statements.
  • Added — borax package, which compiles every .bx file under src/main/borax/<packagename>/ and copies src/main/resources/ on top, ready to be zipped into a .bar archive.
  • Added — project-local imports: import pkg.file.bx; and the optional @import pkg.file.bx;, resolved by a new Package Path Server.
2.0.0
Aug 15, 2025
Changed

Direct-to-bytecode compiler

  • Changed — the compiler now emits .class bytecode directly via ASM. The old pipeline that generated intermediate Java source and shelled out to javac is gone.
  • Added — the .bxc ("Borax ByteCode") file format: a compiled program serialized in its own binary form, needing nothing but the Borax runtime to run — no jar, no .class files.
  • Removed — the transpile command, which no longer has anything to transpile to.
1.0.0
Mar 2, 2025
Added

First public build

  • Added — core language: say, set ... to value, function / run, while loops, conditionals, and set ... to be global scoping.
  • Added — lists (list ... are [...], remove, unregister) and math add|sub|mul|div|mod.
  • Added — native Java classpath imports and a first Windows installer.