Whippet

Whippet is a dynamically typed shell scripting language with lisp-like syntax.

Building:

Run build.py (python3)

Todo

High priority

• Expand the string library
• Implement better terminal editing features; cursor moving, multi-line commands, command history etc.
• Clean up the implementation for command history, line editing; improve stabillity.
• Improve stability
• Write documentation
• Finalise the file handling of the interpreter (directing process outputs to files, reading from files etc)

Medium priority

• Implement hashing instead for interpreter variables, instead of the current linear search method
• Add more datastructures (hashmaps, sets?)
• Local scope & variables ?
• Syntax highlighting
• Autocompletion for commands, paths, variable/function names.
• Pipes
• Dynamic loading of runtime libraries for the interpreter

Low priority

• Implement floating point math & numbers
• Windows compatibillity?