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https://github.com/adelarsq/lightlang

General purpose FP first programming language made for peace that compiles for your desired language/platform [WIP] 💙💛🤍💚
https://github.com/adelarsq/lightlang

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General purpose FP first programming language made for peace that compiles for your desired language/platform [WIP] 💙💛🤍💚

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# Light Language 🖤💙💛






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](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](https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/paperSLE.pdf)

- 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](https://github.com/adelarsq/lightlang/blob/main/LICENSE) - a restricted version from the MIT License.



## News



- [Show HN: Light Language - General purpose programming language made for peace](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521162)



## Based on



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



- [Lisp](https://lisp-lang.org/)

  - [Fennel](https://fennel-lang.org/)

  - [Ciel](https://ciel-lang.org)

- [Zig](https://ziglang.org)

- [F#](https://fsharp.org)

  - [Fable](https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable)

- [ELM](https://elm-lang.org) and [Gren](https://gren-lang.org)

- [V](https://vlang.io)

- [Lua](https://www.lua.org/)



Others:



- [Julia](https://julialang.org/)

- [Python](https://www.python.org/)

- [Elixir](https://elixir-lang.org/)

- [Potigol](https://potigol.github.io/docs/)

- [Roc](https://www.roc-lang.org/)

- [Carbon](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang)

- [Odin](https://odin-lang.org)

- [Raku](https://www.raku.org/) [1](https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/)

- [Austral](https://austral-lang.org)

- [Haskell](https://www.haskell.org/)

- [Prolog](http://www.gprolog.org/)

- [CoffeeScript](https://coffeescript.org/)

- [Hare](https://harelang.org)

- [Shen](https://shen-language.github.io)

- [LCL](https://codeberg.org/gsou/LCL)

- [TXR](https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-lisp.html)

- [blisp](https://ytakano.github.io/blisp)

- [lips](https://lips.js.org/)

- [lumen](https://github.com/sctb/lumen)

- [guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile)

- [s7](https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html)