MILESTONES.md

Milestones

v0.2

• Binary builds
• statically link readline

v0.3 - initial pre-release

• Test suite
• JSON module
• Constraint system
  • language version
  • permissions
• Migrate AST to use actual Ast module
• Regular expressions (libpcre?)
• Allow non-zero exit codes on sub-processes

v1.0

• Formatter
• LSP server
• optimize binary size
• Optional function parameters
• Network stack

Stretch goals

• Bytecode VM (this should not happen until API becomes stable)
• From scratch regular expression engine
• Unicode strings
• Method syntax for hash maps
• Pattern matching
  • Error types
• Formatter
• Have optimizer check that:
  • return always occurs in a function definition
  • break and continue always occur in loops
• Yaml module

Done

v0.1 - initially tagged version

• Language versioning

pre-v0.1

• Bug: $scriptDir and $cwd should be absolute, so they can be chained
• List methods
  • .pop(element)
  • .push(element)
  • .reduce(callback)
  • .filter(callback)
  • .map(callback)
  • .forEach(callback)
  • .contains(element)
• Stack traces
• Add FileDescriptor::write()
• Blank identifier does not bind
• String methods
  • .contains(substring)
  • .split(sep)
• Mock out standard I/O for tests
• Reading from $stdin
• File::open() -> FileDescriptor
  • `fd.close()
  • fd.writeAll("Hello, World!\n")
• throw keyword
• error handling (let result = mayError() catch (e) DEFAULT;)
• $stdin, $stderr
• CLI args
• & and &! operators for spawning sub-processes
• Implement exit function
• Parser errors
• $env
• $script & $scriptDir
• Mock out processes, files for unit tests
• Context variables, with statements; $cwd
• Break and continue statements
• First class for loops
• Migrate var declarations and reassignment to expressions
• Allow single statement blocks to omit semicolons
• Return statements
• Files
• raw string literals
• operators are top level functions that DO one thing, but allow for implicit casting of its operands
• Use readline for REPL
• Class prototypes
• Class static methods
• Process class
• README.md
• Do blocks
• For-in loops
• Comments
• Classes
• Assertions
• Store locs in runtime values
• HashMap literals
• Automatic semicolon insertion
• Implement all arithmetic operators
• String interpolation
• Updating lists
• Hashmaps
• Loops
• Lists
• Comments
• Recursion (depends on conditionals)
• Infix functions
• Tooling to diagnose shift/reduce conflicts
• Conditionals
• Invoking function expressions
• Function arguments
• Variable re-assignment
• Closures
• Lexical scoping

Bugs

• bug: stacktrace printing is wrong in REPL
• bug: Do static methods need to take self as first arg?