Idea for a (toy) programming language

11 Jul 2019

Project Page (WIP)

With the advent of V (which I only took a cursory look at. Alas, what I saw I liked very much. It looks and feels like Go on steroids) I’ve recently become interested in writing my own (toy) language. Partly to serve as a learning/teaching aid in language theory (My niece. My mother. The trainees at my day job. I’ll be damned if I don’t turn everybody I meet into a programming nerd 😹). Partly to have a modern, easy to use language for writing small applications and games.

The initial implementation is unlikely to be “high fidelity”. Just straightforward BNF for the grammar, Go for the compiler/generator, and a few bits and bobs in C++.
PSA that I’m not even remotely a language theorist, nor a compiler designer.

Initial Ideas