Welcome! We (Aaron Lamoreaux and Anand Iyer) created Ero as a final project in CS429H: Computer Organization and Architecture at UT Austin. Check out our proposal here. After this project is over, we will open source the language and possibly continue development. Credit also goes to James Rayman for many of the original ideas and working on an implementation of the interpreter and a virtual reality renderer at HackDFW 2019.
Ero is a functional scripting language intended to describe and process Euclidean constructions in two or three dimensions. Ero is inspired by Elements, an ancient geometry textbook by Euclid of Alexandria. As a result, Ero does not focus on algebra or arithmetic. Rather, it relies on geometry as its main method of computation, even though real arithmetic is still supported. Ero is Turing complete (able to compute anything which is computable) and Euclidean complete (able to construct any Euclidean construction). Ero can also be used to create non-Euclidean constructions (such as an angle trisection and squaring the circle).
"Ero" (pronounced like "arrow") was the name chosen for this language purely because it was short, memorable, and not already taken. Whether or not there is a deeper significance to this name is left as an exercise to the reader.
We have set up an online demo editor which can compile your code here. For up to date information on the features of the language, make sure to check the docs.
If you would like to contact any of us for whatever reason, here are our emails.
- Aaron Lamoreaux lamoreauxaj@gmail.com
- Anand Iyer anandiyer1000@gmail.com