todo.md

Todos

Utility

• Run files
• Read from stdin

Basics

• Add functions
• Add void value
• Call stack and scopes
• Ifs
• Fix lexical scope
• Loops
• bind operator
• Throw / Catch
• Array access
• mutable state
• fix: b + +a vs a ++ b

Docs

• README
• Document Grammar
• More examples
• Goals
• Getting started

Compiler

• JS Code Gen

Optimizer

• Implment CFG data structures
• Dead code removal
• Static eval all the things
• Inlining

Two Step Exec

• Add meta functions

Utility

• typeof function
• Fix as_string vs to_string on Value
• Super basic std lib
• Basic operators

Fun

• Better formatting
• REPL Colors

Grammar/Parser

• Regular "function foo() {}" style functions
• Void expressions
• Operator precedence
• Fix operator precedence in more complicated cases
• Reserved words in declarations (void, typeof)
• Multiple semicolons after each other and in stating pos
• Semicolons after block should be optional
• Write custom lexer
• Write custom parser?

Types

• Add types to grammar
• Basic static type checker (just check value variants)
• Record types: just a list of slots
• Type alias (Interface/Traits work by specifiying a type alias.)
• Algebraic types (Option, etc)?

Complex Data Types

• Literals for arrays
• Literals for maps
• References for complex types / GC
• Equal for complex types