Akuma

A scheme interpreter

Dedicated to the Nissan Fairlady S30 240z.

TODO

• real scheme throws error on (= 1 2 't) because of symbol. Our interpreter allows this because it returns when it finds that 1 != 2. Is this only the = function or are all primitives type checked?
• Support other scheme types, rat, floating point, complex, vectors
  • This mostly requires improving the parser
• Implement more primitives
• Support more of r7rs
• Add quasiquoting with unquoting
• Emulate racket when displaying quoted values
• Lazy lists
• Parallel pipelines? https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
  • https://lparallel.org
• Browser interaction
  • Webdriver API
• Module system
• JIT compilation
  • Maybe look at Cretonne
  • A tiered compiler like SpiderMonkey would be interesting

Priority

• Macros
• Rust FFI
• REPL/environment
• Continuations
• Bytecode

stdlib

• HTTP lib
  • maybe look at Golang's net/http or Common Lisp's Caveman/ningle
  • Should be easy to make requests
  • Should be capable running a server, but maybe doesn't need something akin to RoR
• Database interaction
  • Should have easy drivers for common databases, Psql, SQLite, etc
  • Should have some key/value store like Golang's Boltdb
• GUI library
  • Not sure how this will come out, but the picture language in SICP has me interested
  • Look at Common Lisp's McCLIM
• Text manipulation
  • This includes things like RegEx, fuzzy matching, etc.
  • Important because plaintext is extremely common, useful as a bridge for interacting with UNIX tools
• De/Serialization
  • JSON is important for interacting with the web

Other

• Support images?
  • It might be interesting to support images of the environment so that a session can persist between power cycles
• Run as daemon?
  • Then we might have one session for the whole system, would probably need a way to run subsessions
  • This would require some sort of IPC/RPC