A few hours ago I released a new minor version of the ABS programming language, 1.5.0, which includes a couple of interesting features — let’s get to them!

A few weeks ago I released version 1.4.0 (and 1.4.1, with an additional bugfix) of the ABS programming language: in this post, I’d like to explain everything major that made it in this new minor release.

Hi there! Just a quick post to announce a bugfix release of the ABS programming language: 1.3.2 fixes a simple yet important performance bug dealing with short-circuit evaluation.

We just released version 1.3.1 of ABS, which fixes a simple bug in our JSON parser.

A couple weeks ago the ABS team managed to pull together a new minor release of the language, 1.3.0. This new release only adds 2 new features, but we believe one of them (interactive commands) is money!

It’s no secret I’ve been spending some time having fun with ABS, a programming language with a terse and concise syntax that can simplify working with shell commands.

A few weeks ago I needed to remove a file from all of Namshi’s private GitHub repositories and did so with an ABS script.

Let’s get to it!

A few weeks ago the ABS team managed to pull together a new minor release of the language, 1.2.0, which includes loads of interesting features — let’s get to them!

Fresh new release of the ABS programming language, bringing more syntax you should be familiar with, inspired both by Bash and Python.

This release includes 8 new features and 2 bugfixes, let’s discover them together!

While getting ready for 1.0.0, we merged some changes that created a very funny behaviour:

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null == null # false

If you’re wondering what the problem is, well, when we evaluate null we always create a new Null object rather than re-using one (a-la singleton), so when you end up comparing those 2 objects…well, they’re different.

This was a trivial fix and we’ve already released 1.0.2 to address the issue. As usual:

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bash <(curl https://www.abs-lang.org/installer.sh)

…and start scripting like it’s 2019!

Eventually, the time has come: ABS 1.0.0 is finally out!

This wraps up weeks of work since I started the project a little over a month ago, and gives you a fairly stable release with all of the “must” features I originally wanted to introduce in the language.