Recent changes to the DWScript repository [1] have been oriented towards making it more AI-friendly, because let’s face it, humans writing code is going the way of the Dodo [2]. Last post announced the DWScript Compendium [3], which lists all the new language changes below (and a few more).
dwsRunner utility which has been in limbo for quite a while got a small revival with new command line parameters which match AI’s best guesses (and there is a short help in case they miss), key changes are:
- ability to pass code in the command line instead of a file
- sampling profiler runs
- ability to specify paths
- better error reporting
As for DWSScript language and RTL, these target patterns AI would try first:
- Added FormatFloat [4]
- Added {$PUSH} and {$POP}, FreePascal compatible (which alas Delphi lacks)
- New UnregisterInternalFunction
- Synapse dependency is now optionnal and controlled by ALLOW_SYNAPSE (default Off)
The DWScript Compendium was also moved to serverless deployment, and is now hosted on Cloudflare Pages [5]. The compendium backend creates a fully static site (but that still supports dynamic search) which is pushed to a repo.
Other work in progress revolve around strengthening test cases and supporting more intrinsics for the JiT, a new experiemental Kernel Compiler Library (KCL) which aims for JiT compilation of TFLite neural networks, a rewrite/replacement for the MPIR DLL (BigIntegers).