briansteffens/bshift

Compiler for a language called bshift

bshift's Issues

test directory conflicts with `make test` trying to create a test binary

Suggestions?

Use examples/ directory instead of rewriting test.bs each time

Just a request so we can see examples of all the functionality rather than just the latest feature.

Require explicitly naming unqualified symbol imports

Cannot call a function and ignore its value

This fails at the parser level.

Request for benchmarks

It would be great to have some benchmarks to run in bshift and comparable languages. Comparable could be in terms of practical functionality (so maybe C, DLang, C++, Java, CL) or in terms of desired functionality (so maybe Ruby, Python, Javascript, Scheme). Optimizations are fun and there should be some low-hanging fruit in these early stages. But it's impossible to tell what's changed (/doesn't feel as good) without having benchmarks to point to. We could probably hook travis up to store data and treat introduced latency as CI failure.

Request for docs on built-in operators

What operators are supported? What data do they operate on? In particular, what can I use == on? Just (all) primitives? Will == on strings check that they are the same string in memory?