StoneScript

A programming language that compiles to Minecraft datapacks.

Thank you PyPylia for making my code less bad.

The General Idea

• Tokenizer
  • Parse source files into token streams
• Parser
  • Convert the token stream into an AST
• Parser 2nd Pass
  • Handle imports
  • Mangle variable names
  • Inline small functions
  • De-nest nested blocks
• Pre-Processor
  • Evaluate macros (or don't)
  • Determine the memory usage of functions
  • Insert stack de/allocation instructions
• Datapack Generator
  • Evaluate imports
  • Generate function and variable names
  • Convert the pre-processed AST into valid mcfunction files
• Standard Library
  • A standard library that all programs are dependent on
  • Handles alloc, dealloc, read, and write functions

Goals

• High level abstractions like structs and enums
• Compile to several minecraft versions
• Minecraft version independent abstractions of commands

Maybe Goals

• First class functions
• Compile to native executables