Rename the IO.write method to IO.print, which now prints without a trailing newline, and add a new IO.print method that appends a newline after output. Update all benchmark, example, and test files to use IO.print instead of IO.write. Additionally, implement Unicode escape sequence parsing in the compiler's string tokenizer, supporting \uXXXX and \u{...} syntax with proper UTF-8 encoding for code points up to U+10FFFF.
Remove the deprecated validateIndexOld function and migrate all callers to the new validateIndex that reports runtime errors. Add validateString helper for string argument checking. Introduce comprehensive runtime error tests for list and string subscript operations, removeAt, and contains methods, replacing old silent null returns with proper error halting.
Replace the global `io` singleton object with a static `IO` class, moving the `write` native from the instance to the metaclass. Update all benchmark, example, and test files to use `IO.write()` instead of `io.write()`.
Remove "(bob)" author prefix from all TODO comments in benchmark/method_call.wren, include/wren.h, src/main.c, src/wren_common.h, src/wren_compiler.c, src/wren_core.c, src/wren_value.c, src/wren_value.h, and src/wren_vm.c. Update the TODO_PATTERN regex in metrics script to match the new format without author parentheses. Also refactor test file counting in metrics to use os.walk with fnmatch for recursive directory traversal instead of glob.iglob.
Add DEF_PRIMITIVE(list_removeAt) to src/primitives.c that removes an element at a given index from an ObjList, shifts remaining elements up, shrinks capacity when excess is detected via LIST_GROW_FACTOR, and returns the removed Value. Register the primitive as "removeAt " on vm->listClass. Create test/list/remove_at.wren covering removal at positive indices 0,1,2, negative indices -1,-2,-3, out-of-bounds cases returning null, and verification that the removed value is returned.
