Want to help development of a programming language?

Publish Date: Jul 23 '20

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It's been a few years since I started developing my own programming language, because I loved chuck, but I felt it lacked at least generics and function pointers and performance was quite poor . As of today, Gwion is doing well in terms of features (even more than what I intented to have at first) and performance.

This niche project, IMHO, deserves some attention, and probably a community.

To prevent bus factor, I'm now searching people who would like to contribute. There is much left to do in the documentation area, but I'd also greatly appreciate discussion on its evolution.

Furthermore, there is this event coming, which I'd really like to be a part of, but I need teammates.

Thank you for reading this far (I know my english can be confusing at times).

What do you think? Would you join?

Comments 12 total

Pranav JoglekarJul 23, 2020
Hey. I am interested. I've always wanted to work on developing a language, and I think this is the perfect opportunity.
- Jérémie AstorJul 24, 2020
  Great! I'll do a file exposing directory hierachy this week-end (I can't today, I play in a small venue 😄).
  Let me know everything you need to get started!
  Also, what medium do you think is needed to communicate development plan?
  Looking forward to read you.
  - Pranav JoglekarJul 28, 2020
    Any medium works for me.
    - Jérémie AstorJul 29, 2020
      I'm a bit busy this week, but I just pushed a doxygen documentation for the util directory. I hope it helps.
      I'll do the same for [ast] and core gwion source.
      Did you manage to build the language?
      - Pranav JoglekarJul 30, 2020
        Not yet. I'll finish building this weekend.
        
        Jérémie AstorJul 30, 2020
        Fine. Let me know, I'll help.
        
        Pranav JoglekarAug 4, 2020
        Hey! I am having trouble figuring out how to run programs. Could you help me out?
        
        Jérémie AstorAug 4, 2020
        Sure, and with pleasure.
        Assuming you followed the build instructions and are in the source directory,
        
        ./gwion example/array_lit.gw
        
        Will run example/array_lit.gw.
        
        You can also try saving a hello_world in, say, hello.gw and run
        
        ./gwion hello.gw
        
        Just to be sure, here is an example hello_world in gwion:
        
        <<< "Hello, World!" >>>;
        
        Running this should ouput `Hello, World!" in the terminal.
        
        Let me know 😄
        
        I'm ok to answer on DEV, put I think this is the natural use case for github issues.
        
        Pranav JoglekarAug 4, 2020
        Sure! Let's move this conversation there! Thanks.
Jérémie AstorAug 14, 2020
Great!
I'd especially appreciate feedback/discussion from another language designer 😄

Example of syntax discussion

This morning I finally changed my auto-loop to be a foreach-loop
#! declare an array int array[12]; #! old syntax for(auto a : array) { ... } #! new syntax foreach(a : array) { ... }
I think given foreach ubiquity among programming language, this fits better mine. (it also simplifies lexer and parser).
But I'm still wondering if it could accept some iterator:
foreach(a : array : 2) #! iterate every 2 variables ... foreach(a : array : -1) #! iterate from the end of the array
Hoping to read you soon.
Cheers!

EDIT:

I'll try to update projects and create issue this week-end.

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Want to help development of a programming language?

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Example of syntax discussion