https://github.com/creationix/jack-old

A new programming language that sits on top of JavaScript in order to iron out the rough spots and please the programmer
https://github.com/creationix/jack-old

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A new programming language that sits on top of JavaScript in order to iron out the rough spots and please the programmer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/creationix/jack-old
• Owner: creationix
• Created: 2009-12-29T06:31:00.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-04-13T18:58:02.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-24T04:14:01.182Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 304 KB
• Stars: 47
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.markdown

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# Jack - Making programming playful

Jack is a new language in development that gets translated to pure JavaScript and runs on top of nodeJS.

## Ideals

 - Be Simple! This is very important

 - Be fun! Otherwise, what's the point

 - Be productive! We can only really make time for this is something good comes out of it.

## Technical ideas

 - Compile cleanly down to JavaScript.

 - Use real prototypical inheritance, not the hacked version that made it into JavaScript.

 - Use real whitespace rules and get rid of those semicolons and braces.

 - Create a clean syntax for defining variables, objects and functions/blocks.  That should be all that's needed.

 - Not allow fuzzy things like implicit globals and type coercion.

 - Implement a real compiler with some static analysis, not just regular expression hacks.

 - Unit tests all the way!

## Sample