2-men-team/spike

Compiler for Spike language

spike's Issues

Overall language design

So, I thought it would be good to have a place where to discuss our general language design.

Topics to cover:

• Compilation target (bytecode vm and its type, machine code, llvm, aot? etc.)
• Language to implement it in (C, C++, Rust, Dart etc.)
• Typing type (static, dynamic)
• Language syntax (; vs \n, var vs val vs let vs const, expression oriented?...)
• OOP features (prototypes vs multimethods vs trait-based vs 'java-classes'...)
• Grammar
• Functions semantics (closures etc)
• asynchronicity (in a far future)
• implementation details (one-pass compiler for vm, pratt parsing etc, gc)
• etc.