Sindarin

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Sindarin is an attempt to design a "universal transpiler". Primitives are imported so multiple transpilation targets can be used as "backends" for the language.

"Write once, run any how."

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• Philosophy
  • Syntax
  • Features
• Docs

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Syntax

Keywords

Sindarin has no keywords - only operators and punctuation.

Separators

Separators are good. They create "visual abstraction", and make code easier to read. Sindarin requires semicolons at the end of assignments, and uses curly braces for blocks.

Operators

Operators should visually imply their function as much as possible.

Autocomplete

A language should be grammatically ordered such that autocomplete is possible. For example, the import / from ordering in JavaScript prevents useful autocomplete:

import { foo } from "bar;

Instead, imports in Sindarin are reversed:

bar { foo };

Features

"Function Oriented"

Sindarin is designed to make function oriented programming easy. Partial Application for example, makes currying much easier.

Type Safe

Sindarin is designed to be type safe, even when the underlying transpilation target is not.

Docs

Language

• Basics
  • Variables
  • Types
  • Assignment
  • Values
  • Comments
  • Separators
• Operators
  • Precedence
  • Accessors
  • Comparison Operators
  • Bitwise Operators
  • Logical Operators
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Array Operators
• Functions
  • Basics
  • Generics
  • First Class Functions
  • Argument Forwarding
  • Partial Application
  • Multiple Return Values
  • Solving the Colored Function Problem
• Units
  • Type Abbreviations
  • Conversions
  • Higher Order Units
  • Operator Overloading
• Traits
• Enums
  • Pattern Matching
• Imports
  • Sindarin
  • Plugins
• Standard Library
  • Types
  • Functions

LLVM Branch

The previous version of Sindarin was simply focused on syntax, rather than on transpilation. The llvm branch has a lot more code (including a proof-of-concept LLVM compiler written in TypeScript), but has a less developed syntax.