odin-lang/Odin dev-2023-07

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New Language Features

• Allowing for Positional and Named Arguments in Procedure Calls details
• #reverse for
• Allow for &e, i in array and for k, &v in map and switch &v in ...
  • Will replace the old style of passing the iterable by pointer
  • The &e value will still be of the same type but will be addressable (a reference to the actual value)
    • Variable Addressing Mode (L-Value in C-speak)

Compiler Improvements

• intrinsics.type_merge
• ODIN_COMPILE_TIMESTAMP (unix timestamp in nanoseconds)
• Default to panic allocator for wasm targets
• Numerous Fixes

New Packages

• New and Improved io.Stream interface - details
• core:math/cmplx
• Font texture atlas builder port of fontstash was added to vendor:fontstash
• Vectorized rendering port of nanovg was added to vendor:nanovg

Package Improvements

• Add math.sincos
• Update to Botan 3.0
• Use C calling convention within most Objective-C related procedures in vendor:darwin packages
• Add loads of @(require_results) to many procedures within core
• Make the vast majority of math procedures "contextless"
• Add Mutex to mem.Tracking_Allocator
• bindFramebuffer was added to WebGL package
• Added self_cleanup flag to properly auto-clean threads
• Correct printing in core:fmt for ODIN_ERROR_POS_STYLE
• General Fixes