This release turns WinScript from a promising language runtime into a day-to-day toolchain: shared libraries, an installable CLI, a live REPL, Excel COM routing, and a professional VS Code experience.
The biggest shift is product maturity. You can package it, validate it, live-code in it, wire it into Excel through nested COM contexts, and edit it with diagnostics, autocomplete, and hover docs inside VS Code.
This page tracks the product changes worth advertising: new surfaces, new integrations, and the runtime maturity they unlock.
This release turns WinScript from a promising language runtime into a day-to-day toolchain: shared libraries, an installable CLI, a live REPL, Excel COM routing, and a professional VS Code experience.
Developers can import reusable `.wslib` modules directly into scripts.
A dedicated `LibraryLoader` resolves imports from local paths and standard APPDATA locations, while enforcing that library files only expose reusable function definitions with no dangerous top-level execution.
WinScript now ships as a standard CLI package for execution, validation, and discovery.
Running `winscript script.ws` executes a file, while flags like `--validate`, `--apps`, and `--commands Chrome` make the runtime inspectable. CLI arguments also flow into scripts dynamically as `$1`, `$2`, and onward.
A colorful, stateful terminal interface now supports live-coding WinScript.
Invoking `winscript` with no file opens a REPL with multi-line awareness, persistent variables and functions, history, and environment commands such as `:vars`, `:funcs`, `:clear`, and `:load <file>`.
WinScript now includes the official v2-style COM path for Excel automation.
Natural commands like setting a cell value map directly onto `pywin32` COM methods, and the upgraded backend uses nested context routing so `tell Excel` and nested sheet scopes track the correct COM object stack under the hood.
WinScript now has editor-grade tooling for writing and inspecting scripts.
The TypeScript extension and Python `pygls` server add syntax highlighting, live diagnostics, app-aware autocomplete after `tell`, and hover documentation pulled dynamically from `.wsdict` files.
WinScript now has a typed runtime, a packaged CLI, live REPL tooling, nested COM integration for Excel, and a VS Code editing surface. The product story has shifted from language concept to robust automation platform.