Announcement: recently added and updated languages

[hobovsky]

From this blog post: https://blog.codewars.com/2021/updates-from-the-past-year/#new-languages

We've added support for the following languages: Prolog, CFML, COBOL, Lean, Haxe, CommonLisp, Perl, Raku, and Pascal.

[...] Many of the existing languages were also updated to newer versions. More details will be provided in a dedicated post.

Create a post which lists added languages and updates with the potentially biggest impact:

• changes in APIs and testing frameworks, or changes visible directly to users, like finally fixed, annoying issue in Snowhouse
• the fact that some kata do not work anymore and need to be updated (links to lists), encourage users to fix them
• encourage users to provide new content for beta languages
• credit users who helped setting up the runner

Maybe the previous post on the topic: https://blog.codewars.com/2019/new-languages/ could be used for inspiration?

@kazk it would be nice to have a list of recently updated languages, I guess it can be extracted from the runner board? How far back should it go? I think not all updates have to be listed, just ones with the biggest impact on authors.

[kazk]

Dates can be off because it's based on the commit dates, but here's the list since 2020-01-01 that's relevant for Codewars.

New languages

• 2020-01-04 Add Prolog
• 2020-01-23 Add CFML
• 2020-03-28 Add Lean
• 2020-04-24 Add COBOL
• 2020-05-02 Add Haxe
• 2020-10-08 Add CommonLisp
• 2020-10-15 Add Raku
• 2020-10-16 Add Perl
• 2020-12-14 Add Pascal

Language Updates

• 2020-03-10 C# 8.0
• 2020-03-26 TypeScript 3.8
• 2020-03-28 Coq 8.11
• 2020-04-07 PHP 7.4
• 2020-05-13 Lean 3.11.0
• 2020-06-06 Rust 1.44
• 2020-06-07 Crystal 0.34
• 2020-06-07 Dart 2.8
• 2020-07-28 Python 3.8
• 2020-08-04 Lean 3.18.4
• 2020-10-05 Coq 8.12
• 2020-10-05 Lean 3.20.0
• 2020-10-05 Swift 5.3
• 2020-10-23 C++ libtbb
• 2020-10-30 C++ fmt, range-v3
• 2020-12-10 Haskell 8.8.4
• 2021-01-13 Rust v1.49
• 2021-01-13 Node.js v12.20 (minor update)
• 2021-01-17 C++ snowhouse v5

[kazk]

Looks like we never officially announced the following languages in the blog (I think it was done in the newsletter):

• Racket
• Coq
• VB.NET
• Forth
• Factor