rumcoke

0.2.0 • Public • Published

RumCoke - JavaScript in S-Expression

RumCoke is a programming language which has lisp syntax and JavaScript semantics. The idea is, "What if CoffeeScript is based on S-Expression?"

Current state

Experimental

Features

  • Traslated into (relatively) readable JavaScript
  • Scheme-like syntax
  • Array based s-expression
    • '(1 2 3) is an array, not list
  • quasiquote

TODO

  • User defined macro
  • Source Map?

Example

Hello World

(console.log "Hello, world!")

Requirements

Node.js (tested with v0.10.20)

Install

Via npm.org:

$ npm install -g rumcoke
$ rumcoke hello.rmk | node
Hello, world!

Via github:

$ git clone https://github.com/yhara/rumcoke
$ npm install
$ ./bin/rumcoke hello.rmk | node
Hello, world!

Documents

See doc/index.md

Cheat Sheet

Naming rules

  • convert-defvar => convertDefvar
  • array? => isArray

Variable

  • (define a 1) => var a=1;
  • (set! x 1) => x = 1;

Property

  • (~ ary 0) => ary[0]
  • obj.foo => obj.foo
  • (aset! obj "foo" 1) => obj.foo = 1;
  • cf. (aset! obj foo 1) => obj[foo] = 1;

Function

  • (define (f x) x) => var f = function(x){ return x; }
  • (^(x) (+ x 1)) => function(x){ return x + 1; }
  • (obj.foo 1 2 3) => obj.foo(1, 2, 3);

Literal

  • #t => true
  • #f => false
  • 123 => 123
  • "foo" => "foo"
  • (array 1 2 3) => [1, 2, 3]
  • (array) => []
  • (a: 1) => {a: 1}
  • ("a?": 1) => {"a?": 1}

Operator

  • (= x y) => x === y
  • (not (= x y)) => x !== y
  • (instance? x Date) => x instanceof Date

Exception

  • (throw "err") => throw("err");

Underscore.js

(define _ (require "underscore")) (util.puts (util.inspect (_.map (array 1 2 3) (^(x) (* x 2)))))

See translator.rmk for more.

Development

RumCoke is a self-hosted compiler, so you need a working RumCoke compiler to compile translator.rmk. For this purpose lib/rumcoke/translator.js is commited in repository.

When you run make, it will build translator.js under debug/, so that we always have 'previous working version' in a working copy. make accept will copy this debug build to lib/.

  1. modify parser or translator

  2. Run test

    $ make test ;=> OK if no error is shown

  3. Run make accept to build lib/*

  4. Commit

Tips

Sometimes you find bug in the 'previous woking version'. This case is pretty complecated because you are editing translator.rmk but there is a bug in another position of translator.rmk.

In this case, you should:

  1. Stop developing the new feature
  2. Make a minimal case to reproduce the error (save it in a.rmk)
  3. git stash and fix the bug first

How to release

  1. Edit ./lib/rumcoke/version.js
  2. Edit "version" in ./package.json
  3. git ci && git tag vX.Y.Z && git push --tags
  4. npm publish .

Why?

  • An experiment to make a sexp-based CoffeeScript

    • JavaScript and Scheme are both lisp-2, have 1st-class functions, ...
  • An experiment to make an array-based lisp (not list)

    • So there is no 'Dot pair' in RumCoke
  • Wanted to make a self-hosted programming language

  • I am author of BiwaScheme, a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript, and envious of languages that translated into JavaScirpt (such as JSX, TypeScript, Haxe). They are sometimes even faster than hand-written JavaScript.

License

MIT

Contact

https://github.com/yhara/rumcoke

Yutaka HARA (yhara)

twitter: @yhara_en

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