Elide: Alpha 14

Release Notes

Version: 1.0.0-alpha14

This release brings many major improvements to Elide, along with smaller bugfixes:

✅ Initial support for fetch via polyfill
✅ Faster imports (ESM + CJS) with synthetic modules
✅ Support for precompilers, which process source code before execution; first up is TypeScript
✅ Faster TypeScript execution with a native parser based on oxc
✅ Fix CustomEvent constructor which was not previously exposed
✅ Native (non-polyfilled) implementation of abort types, i.e. AbortController and AbortSignal
⏫ Upgrade sqlite to latest (3.49.1)
💀 Deprecated: Elide's internal asset serving system, for a rewrite
💀 Deprecated: Elide's current Gradle plugin

Dimension	Improvement
Binary size	⏫ Reduced by up to 1G on certain platforms
Startup time	⏫ Improved by up to 20x in some cases (TypeScript)
SQLite	⏫ Improved by up to 30x in some cases (synthetic modules)

Installation

curl -sSL --tlsv1.2 elide.sh | bash -s - --install-rev=1.0.0-alpha14

Support Vector

• macOS on M1+ or x86-64
• Linux on x86-64
• Windows on x86-64
• JavaScript (ECMA2024)
• Python (v3.11)

Warning

Ruby, LLVM, and JVM support (to include Java, Kotlin, et al) have been yanked, along with a few other features (uv), in order to work on binary size. These will be re-introduced, probably in the next release.

What's Changed

• chore: prepare release → 1.0.0-alpha13 by @sgammon in #1211
• feat: intrinsic abort types by @sgammon in #1212
• fix: expose CustomEvent constructor by @sgammon in #1213
• feat: add polyfilled fetch support by @sgammon in #1229
• feat: synthetic modules by @sgammon in #1227
• feat: precompilers (pt1) by @sgammon in #1215
• chore: update sqlite → 3.49.1 by @sgammon in #1228
• chore: dependency updates by @sgammon in #1240
• fix(graalvm): omnibus native fixes by @sgammon in #1244
• chore(deps): Bump docker/setup-qemu-action from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 by @dependabot in #1222
• chore(deps): Bump actions/setup-java from 4.2.1 to 4.7.0 by @dependabot in #1223
• chore(deps): Bump bufbuild/buf-setup-action from 1.47.2 to 1.50.0 by @dependabot in #1224
• chore(deps): Bump google-github-actions/auth from 2.1.7 to 2.1.8 by @dependabot in #1225
• chore(deps): Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0 by @dependabot in #1226

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha13...1.0.0-alpha14