* fixes#15210 [backport:1.2]
* make tests green
* make ordinal work
* makes Swapable test compile
* make Indexable example work
* concepts: 'self' is now 'Self'
* concepts: make Dictionary example compile
* document the new concept implementation
* concepts: make typeDesc work properly
* concepts: allow documentation comments (d'oh)
* IC: dead code elimination pass
* preparations for a different codegen strategy
* added documentation to the newly written code
* IC: backend code
* IC: backend adjustments
* optimized the compiler a bit
* IC: yet another massive refactoring
* fixes regressions
* cleanups
* reworked ID handling
* the packed AST now has its own ID mechanism
* basic serialization code works
* extract rodfiles to its own module
* rodfiles: store and compare configs
* rodfiles: store dependencies
* store config at the end
* precise dependency tracking
* dependency tracking for rodfiles
* completed loading of PSym, PType, etc
* removed dead code
* bugfix: do not realloc seqs when taking addr into an element
* make IC opt-in for now
* makes tcompilerapi green again
* final cleanups
Co-authored-by: Andy Davidoff <github@andy.disruptek.com>
* refactoring: idents don't need inheritance
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 1)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 2)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 3)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 4)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* IdGenerator must be a ref type; hello world works again
* make bootstrapping work again
* progress: add back the 'exactReplica' ideas
* added back the missing exactReplica hacks
* make tcompilerapi work again
* make important packages green
* attempt to fix the build for 32 bit machines (probably need a better solution here)
* refactoring: move procs to typeallowed.nim
* frontend preparations for first class openArray support
* prepare the code generator for first class openArray
* code generation for first class openArray; WIP
* code generation for open arrays, progress
* added isViewType proc
* preparations for borrow checking
* added borrow checking to the front end
* I don't care about observable stores
* enforce explicit initializations
* cleaner code for the stdlib
* stdlib: use explicit initializations
* make tests green
* algorithm.nim: set result explicitly
* remove out parameters and bring the PR into a mergable state
* updated the changelog
* do not track 'raise Defect' in the .raises: [] clause anymore
* --panics:on maps 'raise Defect' to an unrecoverable fatal error
* make tests green again
* update the documentation too
* -d:checkabi obsolete (ABI check now enforced); add `addTypeHeader` helper
* cleanups
* import sizeof at CT for {.completeType.}
* address comments; revert default enabling of -d:checkAbi for now
* mimportc_size_check.nim => msizeof5.nim; merge mabi_check.nim into msizeof5.nim; refactor
* all pragmas in errmsgs should be written: '.importc' (un-ambiguous and less verbose than {.importc.})
* first implementation of the =trace and =dispose hooks for the cycle collector
* a cycle collector for ARC: progress
* manual: the .acyclic pragma is a thing once again
* gcbench: adaptations for --gc:arc
* enable valgrind tests for the strutils tests
* testament: better valgrind support
* ARC refactoring: growable jumpstacks
* ARC cycle detector: non-recursive algorithm
* moved and renamed core/ files back to system/
* refactoring: --gc:arc vs --gc:orc since 'orc' is even more experimental and we want to ship --gc:arc soonish
