2026-07-27

• NEW: Emmet-style input:TYPE shorthand — input:time, input:color, input:range, etc. are parsed as <input type="TYPE"> at the lexer/parser level. Distinguishes from tim's : text-content syntax by checking wsno == 0 (no whitespace before colon). Only triggers on tagInput. Subsequent attributes (.class, #id) still apply.
• NEW: svg elements now auto-inject xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" at parse time. Skips if the user explicitly provides xmlns.
• FIX: PHP Linux build — replaced --passC: staticExec(...) with switch("passC", ...) in tim.nims (staticExec returns literal text at compile-time, not the const value). Uses php-config --include-dir as primary header discovery on Linux (with pkg-config fallback).
• FIX: Clue hardcoded macOS pragmas — wrapped {.passC:}/{.passL:} in php_api.nim, python_api.nim, lua_api.nim inside when defined(macosx): to prevent MacPorts paths and -framework CoreFoundation from leaking into Linux builds.
• FIX: Docs workflow — added permissions: contents: write to allow peaceiris/actions-gh-pages to push the gh-pages branch (GITHUB_TOKEN defaults to read-only on newer repos).
• NEW: Ruby extension CI — tim-ruby/.github/workflows/build.yml builds the native extension via repository_dispatch (triggered from tim's release workflow). Builds for x86_64-darwin, arm64-darwin, and x86_64-linux sequentially, commits platform binaries to the tim-ruby repo.
• NEW: @LitElement, ClassName, "tag-name" — define Lit-like custom HTML elements in Tim. Body supports @javascript blocks (concatenated into the class body) and a single @client block (the render template compiled to JS template literals). Generates a JavaScript class extending LitElement with connectedCallback, render(), and customElements.define(). Client-side only; server-side rendering emits the class as a <script> block.

2026-07-04

• NEW: Lexer gains tkIs/tkIsNot token kinds; parser recognizes them as infix operators (precedence 5, equal to ==). Registered as stdlib foreign procs with Nim implementations that compare values at runtime by TypeId. Related to VanCode v0.2.0 - 2026-07-08

• CHANGE: Updated stdlib for VanCode v0.1.9 ValueStorage API — Object.fields changed from seq[Value] to seq[ValueStorage] (inline primitive storage). All field reads now use .toValue, all field writes use .toStorage:

  • libarrays.nim — add, insert, join, contains, find, dedup, first, last updated for ValueStorage
  • libobjects.nim — add, insert, join, find, keys updated
  • libstrings.nim — split result assignment updated
  • libsystem.nim — object $ dump helper updated No functional changes — the engine continues to work unchanged.

• NEW: Element multiplication syntax: tag*N repeats an HTML element N times with an injected $i index variable (0-based). Example: li*3: $items[$i] produces 3 <li> elements

• NEW: @import "std/..." system: populated stdlibs table, fixed libobjects.nim syntax errors, switched build.nim to initCompiler for stdlibs pass-through

• FIX: Fixed addCallable KeyError in vancode when exportFunctions key is missing on overloaded function names

• FIX: Exported macros (macro foo*) now properly cross module boundaries via exported = true in genMacro

• FIX: serve command no longer hardcodes template paths — reads compilation.source, compilation.output, and subdirectory paths from tim.config.yml

• NEW: Exposed supranim Request API as foreign functions callable via $this.getPath(), $this.getMethod(), $this.getQuery("key"), $this.getHeader("key"), $this.getBody(), $this.getIp(), $this.getUrl(), $this.getAgent(), $this.getParam("key")

• NEW: @static compile-time evaluator for for loops and if/elif/else conditionals. The body is captured as raw text, {$varName} patterns are substituted with literal iteration values, then re-parsed by an inner parser. For loops unroll into the parent AST; conditionals select the matching branch at compile time. Both the lexer and parser were extended (tkStatic, nkStatic, parseStaticStmt rewrite, parseScript flattening of expanded nodes). Supports both literal arrays and start..end integer ranges (e.g., @static for $x in 1..12:).

2026-07-04

• FIX: fixed source and output fields in tim.config.yml
• FIX: parseVarIdent now handles generic type annotations (var abc: array[string]) by calling parseGenericType instead of leaving [string] unconsumed
• NEW: CompilationPolicy is now threaded from engine.config.compilation.policy into the codegen via initCompiler, enabling per-project feature restrictions (imports, stdlib, packages, loops, conditionals, assignments, dynamic libs)
• NEW: Ruby gem automation — release.yml now pushes platform-specific binaries (x86_64-darwin, arm64-darwin, x86_64-linux) to openpeeps/tim-ruby on tag releases
• FIX: tim.nims Ruby build now uses pkg-config on both macOS and Linux (was hardcoded to MacPorts paths)
• FIX: tim.nimble plat variable now detects Linux (x86_64-linux) in addition to macOS (x86_64-darwin / arm64-darwin)
• FIX: Removed hardcoded MacPorts paths from Clue's ruby_api.nim — uses project-level pkg-config instead