Just a quick post to announce the DWScript Compendium website!
This is the long overdue language documentation website for DWScript, which Gemini-cli has been patiently building over the last weeks, as it’s wasn’t built as a one-off documentation generation, but as a fully proved and compiled documentation. So hallucinations should be minimal!
At a time when AI are taking over writing code, AI also took over writing documentation.
Recently added a small DWScript-MCP repository with MCP (Model Context Protocol) samples for DWScript.
This showcases how you can deploy a custom MCP server with basically nothing else than the DWSWebServer.exe. That’s less than 8 MB, a couple small script files and no dependencies… and it can even run under Linux with Wine!
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A tentative new language feature has been pushed to the DWScript repository: “property reintroduce”.
The aim is to allow a method to be reintroduced as a property, and do so in a non-fatal fashion so it can be pushed to production and existing code can be migrated iteratively. (more…)
For quite sometime the issue tracker at BitBucket has been barely usable, and Atlassian does not seem to have bothered fixing it… So if you have issues with DWScript, please now post them on the issues tracker of the GitHub DWScript mirror. (more…)
DWScript has been updated for Delphi 12 support, there are only minor changes required and they are in the DWScript repository.
On a side note, the Delphi 12 IDE definitely feels more snappy when navigating code or invoking code insight (ctrl+space) on large projects (more than 2 MLOC), which is nice!
Support for “readonly” class fields has been added to DWScript repository.
The syntax is similar to the one in Oxygene, with a qualifier following a field declaration: (more…)
Latest commits in the DWScript repository bring compatibility with Delphi 11.3 Alexandria.
There were very few changes required, and a couple bugs were fixed in the process. One test (stack overflow) had to be tweaked, apparently the new compiler uses more stack space, which caused one of the unit tests to fail in the “wrong “place.
All in all the 11.3 IDE and compiler appear way more stable, and AVX2/FMA support is nice… hopefully will get support in the CPU debugger as well soon 🙂
Just released the initial beta of FocusFusion to the Windows Store!
This is my first attempt at building an appx with Delphi and releasing it to the store 🙂
You can download it from the Microsoft Store.
FocusFusion is a utility for focus stacking photography. It can take a set of images captured with shallow depth-of-field and merge them together to create a single “all-in-focus” image. This allows otherwise impossible images to be made.
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Periodic DWScript release 22.6.28 has been created on the DWScript GitHub.
This release includes a variety of micro-optimizations (many memory-related) for the compiler, runtime and JavaScript codegen, as well as fixes and improvements.
The language syntax has been slightly extended for the Pascal-to-Javascript transpiler to cover the case of read-only external properties. (more…)
The DWScript JavaScript code generator is now transitioning to ECMA6, as the the LTS versions of browsers are now completing the transition. So you will now see the code generator using “let” and other ECMA6 constructs where they make sense, in terms of performance or compacity.