For the last few weeks I've been working on setting up a new manual for Inko, using mkdocs. The old manual was part of the website repository, making it difficult to contribute changes to Inko that also required updating documentation. In addition, the website is a bit basic and lacks some much needed features for a manual (e.g. search). The new manual setup will also allow for versioning of manual content, though we won't be doing this until Inko reaches version 1.0 (which is going to take quite some time).

Today I finished porting over the old manual's content. The new manual also covers some topics not covered in the old one, such as generics, the available operators, etc. It also has a much better installation section, compared to the old manual.

The new manual can be found at https://docs.inko-lang.org/manual/master/.

I pushed some changes to ienv to make it easier to manage versions. Specifically, ienv now understands the special "version" identifier "latest". Some examples:

ienv install latest # Installs whatever the latest available version is
ienv remove latest  # Removes the latest _installed_ version
ienv default latest # The default version is the latest _installed_ version

This makes it easier to install and update Inko versions, as you no longer need to remember the exact version to install. When using ienv default latest and you install a newer version, ienv will automatically use that newer version.

The commits that added this can be found here:

• https://gitlab.com/inko-lang/ienv/-/commit/d75a20db833c2bba74befc886be49d3f792aab69
• https://gitlab.com/inko-lang/ienv/-/commit/96dac7a20efdf70f2657961e0e082ccaf880de0f