Elide: Alpha 9

Release Notes

Version: 1.0.0-alpha9

This release is focused on (1) bugfixes and general stability, (2) Node API support, and (3) TypeScript support. New Node API methods are implemented in fs, fs/promises, and stream, with many more coming soon.

This version has been released to binaries on macOS, Linux, and Windows, and is available for JVM on Maven Central.

Installation

curl -sSL --tlsv1.2 elide.sh | bash -s -

Special Thanks

• Diego Rivero (@isthistechsupport) for helping test Elide and revealing several bugs. All are now fixed. Thank you!
• Christian Humer (@chumer) for helping navigate GraalJs internals to deliver TypeScript support. Thank you!
• Jordan Claspell (@claspell) for helping test Elide on macOS/AMD64. Thank you!
• Tyler Porras (@t-porras) for helping test Elide on macOS/AMD64. Thank you!
• Felipe Recalde (@designdream) for helping test Elide on macOS/ARM64. Thank you!
• Damien O'Hara (@mfwgenerics) for helping test Elide and for all his feedback. Thank you!
• Latanya Donaldson (@ldonald067) for helping test Elide's release process. Thank you!
• Sayyid Yoffa (@sayyidyofa) for helping test Elide on Linux, and for his contributions and feedback. Thank you!

Change Summary

• New support for the node:url module
• Initial support for the node:stream module
• Initial support (internally) for native TypeScript execution
• Better support for fs and fs/promises
  • fs.readFile / readFileSync / fs/promises.readFile
  • fs.writeFile / fs.writeFileSync / fs/promises.writeFile
  • fs.mkdir / fs.mkdirSync / fs/promises.mkdir
  • fs.exists / fs.existsSync
  • fs.access / fs.accessSync / fs/promises.access

New Features

• TypeScript Supprt (#824)
• Node API: fs/promises (#855)
• Node API: fs (#825)
• Node API: url (#854)
• Node API: events (#879)

Fixed Issues

• Elide doesn't accept application arguments (#850)
• Elide can't serve from Python or Ruby (#851)
• Ctrl+D should exit the REPL (#880)
• Latest installer shell script is broken (#881)

Node API Support

🟢 = Improved support; fully compliant
🟡 = Better support but not compliant yet

• 🟢 node:url
• 🟡 node:events
• 🟡 node:fs
• 🟡 node:fs/promises
• 🟡 node:stream

Platform Support

• macOS: amd64 / arm64
• Linux: amd64 / arm64
• Windows: amd64

Notable Dependency Upgrades

• Kotlin → 2.0.0-RC3

Note

This release is registered on Sigstore, and signed with GPG2. Hash-lock files are provided for each archive. Provenance material is also made available, but due to a bug in CI, may not yet verify. This will be rectified by later releases and corrected before 1.0.0 is released.

What's Changed

• chore(deps): bump bufbuild/buf-lint-action from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 by @dependabot in #835
• chore(deps): bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3.0.0 to 3.3.0 by @dependabot in #834
• chore(deps): bump docker/login-action from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 by @dependabot in #836
• feat: initial work on embedded dispatch by @darvld in #838
• feat(base): implement sorted collections by @darvld in #869
• feat(node): node api support for alpha9 by @sgammon in #849

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha8...1.0.0-alpha9