Kwil v0.8

v0.8

Major Priorities

Kuneiform Upgrades

Kuneiform Changes

• Strong typing for inputs
• Defined returns

Procedural Language

• Variable declarations
• If/elseif/else
• For loops
• Basic arithmetic (we need to ensure that division is deterministic)

New Types

• BLOB: equivalent of Golang's []byte
• uint256: for storing token information from smart contracts
• uuid: for primary keys. users are currently storing them as 36 char strings
• boolean
• some sort of fixed point variable (this is a major feature request from truflation)

Snapshots

• Protocol for snapshotting information from the database
• Network migrations via snapshots
• Network sync via snapshots

Minor Priorities

• Network recovery tools (kwil-admin)
• gRPC -> JSON RPC (TBD Jon 04/24)
• DB access optimizations, particularly around voting
• Improved error handling for parsers, database