So I spent a bit of time today getting together the overdue release of Deelang ready, and finally pushed the 0.22 binary releases to Google Code, with source releases staying on GitHub. The Google Code project has now been fully migrated over to GitHub, and remains only to host binary downloads for those that want to get up and running quickly.

This release of Deelang is largely a maintenance release, with a number of bugfixes to the internals of the Dex compiler, the runtime library and a few other places. It does however include a few new features, notably:

• Or Blocks are now implemented in the DEX compiler, and are used exactly like as they are in the Dee VM. 
  
• Comparison operators are fully implemented.
• Method chaining on parenthesized expressions works as it always should have!

This release doesn’t yet include the new AST rewriting I previously blogged about (that’s planned for 0.30 at the moment, as it’s a big change) but does address a lot of the issues that will eventually fix in a quick-fix kinda way – mostly as short-term fixups that will go away once the migration to the new AST layout is complete.