Light Language 🖤💙💛

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Light it's a language to bring light for people.

Objectives This is not a toy project. In the next years this project will be alive!

Premisses Technology and peace together. See License

About the creator I am creating this project on my free time, but with production in mind. I don't know how much time will take but we will reach there :)

Principles

• Performance and energy efficiency 1
• Minimal syntax - based on LISP
• Manutenability - avoid breaking changes
• Strongly typed
• Easy FFI

Roadmap

• [x] Define roadmap
• [x] Define language to write the first compiler version WIP
• [x] Logo
• [X] Define Language used to implement -> Go
• [ ] POC features - ~1 year
  • [x] Define main syntax -> LISP
  • [ ] Define grammar WIP -- see Syntax.md and light.ebnf
  • [ ] Create AST implementation
  • Transpilers (something like Fable for F#) (first round):
    • [ ] Go
    • [ ] JavaScript and JSON
    • [ ] Lua
  • [ ] Implement Light in Light
  • [ ] REPL (based on Elixir's REPL)
  • [ ] Package manager (allow multiple backends? )
  • [ ] LSP
  • [ ] Treesitter
  • [ ] DAP
  • Transpilers (second round)
    • [ ] Zig
    • [ ] Swift
    • [ ] ECMAScript - for webdev
    • [ ] WebAssembly - for webdev
    • [ ] Rust/Crab
    • [ ] Java
    • [ ] Elixir
    • [ ] F#
    • [ ] V
• [ ] Long term ~2 or more years
  • [ ] Standalone compiler ~? years
    • [ ] LLVM support
• [ ] On the map
  • [ ] SIMD
  • [ ] Shaders

License

• Light License - a restricted version from the MIT License.

News

• Show HN: Light Language - General purpose programming language made for peace

Based on

These are the list of languages on which this will be based:

• Lisp
  • Fennel
  • Ciel
• Zig
• F#
  • Fable
• ELM and Gren
• V
• Lua
• Haskell

Others:

• Julia
• Python
• Elixir
• Potigol
• Roc
• Carbon
• Odin
• Raku 1
• Austral
• Prolog
• CoffeeScript
• Hare
• Shen
• LCL
• TXR
• blisp
• lips
• lumen
• guile
• s7