Light Language 🖤💙💛

Light it's a language to bring light for people.

Objectives This is not a toy project. In the next months I (or we) will turn this project alive!

Premisses Technology need to bring happiness, not fear and despair. See 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
• Minimal syntax - based on LISP
• Manutenability - avoid breaking changes
• Strongly typed
• Easy FFI

Roadmap

• Define roadmap
• Define language to write the first compiler version WIP
• Logo ->
• Define Language used to implement -> Go
• POC features - ~1 year
  • Define main syntax -> LISP
  • Define grammar WIP -- see Syntax.md and light.ebnf
  • Create AST implementation
  • Transpilers (something like Fable for F#) (first round):
    • Zig - allows to reach a huge list of platforms
    • JSON
    • Lua
  • Implement Light in Light
  • REPL (based on Elixir's REPL)
  • Package manager (allow multiple backends? )
  • LSP
  • Treesitter
  • Transpilers (second round)
    • Swift
    • ECMAScript - for webdev
    • WebAssembly - for webdev
    • Rust/Crab
    • Java
    • Elixir
    • F#
• Long term ~2 or more years
  • Standalone compiler ~? years
    • LLVM support

License

• Light License - a restricted version from the MIT License.

News

• Show HN: Light Language - General purpose programming language made for peace

Based on

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

• Fennel
• Zig
• F# Fable
• ELM and Gren
• V
• Lua
• Lisp

Others:

• Julia
• Python
• Elixir
• Potigol
• Roc
• Carbon
• Odin
• Raku 1
• Austral
• Haskell
• Prolog
• CoffeeScript
• Hare
• Shen
• LCL
• TXR
• blisp
• lips