Revision history for swarm

0.3.0.1 - 2023-02-01

A few critical bug fixes and improvements:

• Make sure the base always has a logger installed in every tutorial level, by @byorgey in #1067 and @xsebek in #1073
• Allow dialog boxes to scroll by @byorgey in #1071
• Fix bug that sometimes caused scenarios to be skipped or repeated by @byorgey in #1065

0.3.0.0 - 2023-01-30

This is the first release of 2023! It contains:

• various new features and bugfixes (see subsections below)
• UI tweaks
• fewer typos (thanks @bwignall and @kostmo)
• upgraded dependencies (>=lsp-1.6 and >=brick-1.5) and raised Stack resolver to use GHC 9.4 #1001
• a ton of internal refactoring

Fixed bugs

• copy parent robot context to child when executing build by @byorgey in #817
• Merge new requirements context with existing when running from REPL by @byorgey in #965
• Reset lastFrameTime when starting a new scenario by @byorgey in #855
• Fix capability checking, and refactor/add lots of comments by @byorgey in #959
• Fix EntityMap merging by @byorgey in #962
• Fix: add first heard message to log by @xsebek in #842
• Fix hypothetical result of condition by @xsebek in #940
• One file per achievement record by @kostmo in #954
• Show duplicate robot logs by @xsebek in #1022
• Copy requirements map to robot context when loading a new ProcessedTerm by @byorgey in #827
• Set REPL to Working when base has program field specified by @byorgey in #846
• Create swarm subdirectories as necessary by @xsebek in #943

New Features

Swarm language

• implement Equip/Unequip by @kostmo in #887
  • The great install/equip switch by @byorgey in #989
• Meeting other robots by @byorgey in #920
• New heading command by @byorgey in #955
• Add isempty : cmd bool to check whether current cell has an entity by @byorgey in #968

Entities

• Add GPS receiver device to provide senseloc capability by @byorgey in #956
• Device with recipe for 'appear' capability by @kostmo in #1027
• device for setname by @kostmo in #1028

LSP improvements

• swarm-lang IDE hover by @kostmo in #972
• Include SrcLoc info with variable binding sites by @byorgey in #993
• Annotate ASTs with types at every node by @byorgey in #991
• Improve OnHover for Def/Let, App and Const by @xsebek in #986
• warn of unused variables by @kostmo in #983

Web API

• Expose REPL history via web interface by @kostmo in #821

Command line options

• Add full color mode option by @xsebek in #851

New scenarios

• New ranching scenario by @kostmo in #835
• new bind tutorial by @kostmo in #895
• A "bucket brigade" of robots by @kostmo in #885
• Ice Cream Shop by @kostmo in #1008
• word search by @kostmo in #999
• Wolf, Goat, Cabbage scenario by @kostmo in #944
• swarm logo animation by @kostmo in #1018

Scenario development

• Boolean expressions of objective prerequisites by @kostmo in #927
• support 'orientationMap' by @kostmo in #1023
• support custom attributes defined in scenarios by @kostmo in #1058

UI enhancements

• show devices that enable commands by @kostmo in #899
• Add a "driving mode" to the REPL by @kostmo in #819

Achievements

• achievements board by @kostmo in #796
• first tutorial completion achievement by @kostmo in #925
• Add achievement for losing by @kostmo in #945

Debugging

• Better CESK machine pretty-printing by @byorgey in #948
• Add the full expected location for the data directory by @TristanCacqueray in #908
• Extend logs for warnings by @xsebek in #982

0.2.0.0 - 2022-11-01

A bunch of small fixes and improvements; special thanks to new contributors @0xcefaedfe, @kostmo, @ussgarci, and @valyagolev. Notable changes include:

• New UI features:
  • REPL improvements:
    • Expose the last evaluated result as it, and previous results as itN (#734)
    • Allow clicking in the REPL input to move the cursor (#750)
    • Autocomplete entity names in the repl (#798)
    • REPL cursor no longer blinks when REPL panel is not selected (#801)
  • Improve user experience around quitting & moving between tutorial challenges (#754)
    • Add a button to the Quit dialog to restart a scenario. (#767)
    • Use scenario name as Goal dialog title (#774)
  • autoplay flag for automatically demonstrating scenario solutions (#792)
  • Improved inventory sorting and user-controllable sort criteria (#793)
  • Ability to temporarily hide robots so you can see what's under them (#802)
• New language features:
  • New void type (#735)
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix bug in the first tutorial challenge that froze the game and ate all memory if the user said anything other than expected (#762, #810)
• Documentation:
  • Generate all wiki "cheat sheets" automatically (#769)
• Support for building on GHC 9.4 (#752)

There were several other small fixes and improvements; see the full changelog here.

0.1.1.0 - 2022-10-14

A couple new features and an important bugfix for the Hackage release.

• Update to hsnoise-0.0.3, fixing some world generation bugs that only showed up in the Hackage release. (#746)
• New "blank" creative scenario (#741)
• REPL improvements
  • Ctrl-D at an empty REPL prompt now triggers a quit (#743)
  • The REPL panel now persists in showing the type of the most recently evaluated expression (#733)

0.1.0.1 - 2022-10-06

A bugfix release for a few minor bugs that plagued the first release:

• Fall back to to the swarm data directory when a run file is not found (#730)
  • This bug caused the move tutorial to be unplayable because it tried to execute run "data/scenarios/Tutorials/move_system.sw"
• Fix version check when there is no GitInfo (#729)
  • This bug caused the game to always report that there was a new version available even when you already had the latest (and only!) version.

0.1.0.0 - 2022-10-06

First Swarm release! Swarm already has:

• a programming language based on the polymorphic lambda calculus + recursion, with a command monad for describing first-class imperative actions
• scenarios which can be loaded from YAML files
  • the release comes with official challenges and an in-game tutorial
  • the default Classic and Creative modes use the same YAML syntax
  • we include JSON schemas for editor support when writing scenarios
• procedural 2D world generation
• LSP server built into the Swarm executable
• Terminal UI interface
  • running the executable opens the Main menu by default
  • game screen with a world view, inventory and REPL
    • popup windows for messages, challenge descriptions, etc.