Overview of Gleam v1.4.0 Features and Enhancements

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Overview of Gleam v1.4.0 Features and Enhancements

Source: gleam.run

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Louis Pilfold introduces the new release of Gleam v1.4.0, detailing various enhancements and features. Key updates include a shorthand syntax for labels which reduces repetitive code, code actions in the language server to convert to the shorthand syntax, and adding labels that calls accept automatically. It also includes label access completion, signature help for functions which shows documentation and highlights required arguments, frequent emission of warnings for better visibility, and targeted documentation with a new '--target' flag. The release also improves fault tolerance in analysis, provides better error messages for common type definition mistakes, supports constant concatenation of strings, and adds more JavaScript bit array support. Additional minor features include support for document symbols listing in editors, automatic case correction suggestions, and code actions to convert assert expressions into case and panic expressions. The article concludes with a call for community support and thanks to various contributors.

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