Factor 0.100 has been released with over 1400 commits and various contributors. Some key changes include Unicode 15.1 upgrade, ARM64 support, automatic light/dark theme detection on Windows, and compressed image support. Controversial updates such as possible backwards compatibility issues have been addressed, and new libraries added, like base45 and bend. The release also honors the late Raghu Ranganathan, a respected developer in coding communities. Factor remains a high-level, versatile language for stack-based programming, with dynamic types, extensible syntax, and garbage collection. Stand-alone applications can be deployed on all platforms, and the project is open source under a BSD license.
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