--- title: ArachnoScript v0.2.5 Development Update: Closures,... description: ArachnoScript v0.2.5 brings several significant runtime and language improvements. The headline feature is working closures — the first time the language... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/arachnoscript-v0-2-5-development-update-closures-circular-references-file-i-o-and-more-rhd6abyen twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ArachnoScript v0.2.5 Development Update: Closures, Circular References, File I/O, and More | daily.dev og:description: ArachnoScript v0.2.5 brings several significant runtime and language improvements. The headline feature is working closures — the first time the language... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/arachnoscript-v0-2-5-development-update-closures-circular-references-file-i-o-and-more-rhd6abyen og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RHd6AByen.png og:image:alt: ArachnoScript v0.2.5 Development Update: Closures, Circular References, File I/O, and More og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ArachnoScript v0.2.5 Development Update: Closures, Circular References, File I/O, and More **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ArachnoScript v0.2.5 brings several significant runtime and language improvements. The headline feature is working closures — the first time the language supports functions retaining access to their creation environment. Other additions include circular reference detection during object/array inspection, proper return statement evaluation, arrow functions with expression bodies, new built-in macros for strings, byte arrays, randomness, and filesystem operations, plus stdin/stdout constants. A loop bug was also fixed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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