Over his palm hovered the shards that had once been his spectacles, and though the enchantments on them were gone there was something a great deal more dangerous to be glimpsed in them now. The last thing they’d witnessed was the Summer sun in the fullness of its glory, and that light was still alive in the glass. It might never leave. - A Practical Guide To Evil

gonna make a perfect programming language. gonna make it with imperfect code.

design has rambling about design and motivation and problems, but tldr its immutable statically typed lua

it can build values, declare variables, do if statements, define cores, evaluate arms of cores, do simple changes, and call simple functions. it either emits llvm ir (run it like lua src/main.lua --llvm && lli output.ll) or does a dumb tree walking interpreter.

todo is basically "add defered types, add type safety, add generic functions, add reference counting" and then hopefully i can evaluate factorials or whatever.

requires lua 5.3 and llvm-7

this uses lualvm and is probably the only program in the history of the world to do so. you gotta install inclua which is some random dude's lua bindgen and then go to lib/lualvm and run export CXX=clang++ && export CC=clang && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && make install. and also maybe remove LLVMCreateOprofileJITEventListener from /usr/include/llvm-c/ExecutionEngine.h. c'est la vie.

i wrote a parser in rust for this but its not hooked up. once that works you'll probably have to build that too.

better if you didn't, really.