PrettyConsole 3.0.0-rc.1

Changelog

v3.0.0 - RC1

• Removed Write and WriteLine overloads that contains multiple ColoredOutputs, when using the overload with ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput> and CollectionExpression, the compiler generates an inline array to hold the elements, this is very efficient, and the reduced complexity allows usage of multiple ColoredOutputs in more places.
• All overloads of all functions that previously took only one ColoredOutput now take a ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput> instead, as noted it will use an inline array, and the internal implementation also has fast paths for size 1.
• All fast changing outputs (ProgressBar, IndeterminateProgressBar, OverrideCurrentLine) now uses the error output pipe by default, this means that if the consumer will pipe the output to another cli, it won't be filled with garbage and retain only the valuable stuff.
• Added ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput> overloads to WriteError and WriteLineError.
• Added overloads for all variants of ReadLine and TryReadLine that support T @default that will be returned if parsing fails.
• Write, WriteLine, WriteError and WriteLineError no longer have params ColoredOutput[] overloads, they instead have a ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput> overload. This performs even better as it uses an inline array, and the removal of the restrictions on where params can be used, allowed ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput> to replace virtually allow single ColoredOutput methods as well. Allowing greater customization in any function.
• You can now access the In, Out, and Error streams of System.Console directly from PrettyConsole.Console by using the properties Out, Error, and In. This reduces verbosity since the names of the classes have collisions.
• Added SetColors to allow setting the colors of the console output.
• ClearNextLines now also has a ClearNextLinesError brother which does the same for the Error stream.
• NewLineError was also added for this.
• To enhance customization in extreme high perf scenarios where you write a ReadOnlySpan<char> directly to the output stream, the Write and WriteError methods now have overloads that take a ReadOnlySpan<char> instead of a ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput>, along with foreground and background colors.
• Added Write and WriteError variants for T : ISpanFormattable as well.
• ProgressBar should now be even more performant as internal progress tracking allowed cutting the required operations by 20%.
• Color will now contain static readonly ConsoleColor fields for both Foreground and Background colors, they will be initialized during runtime to support all platforms (fixing the instant crashes on Windows).
  • You can also refer them when you want to use the defaults for any reason.
• The base methods which are used for outputting ReadOnlySpan<ColoredOutput> have been re-written to reduce assembly instructions, leading to about 15-20% runtime improvements across the board, and reducing by the binary size by a few bytes too lol.
• Console and Color now have the correct attributes to disallow compilation on unsupported platforms, if anyone tries to use them now (even thought it should've been obvious that they shouldn't be used on unsupported platforms), it should display the right message at build time.
• Removed all overloads that have options to change the input colors, it invites non-streamlined usage, and just increases the code complexity to maintain. Without them the code is simpler and more performant.