goscript

productivity oriented, AOT compiled, platform independent scripting language written in golang

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1. Goals & Architecture

1.1 Motivation & Goals

1.2 Architecture

2. Language Specification

2.1 Program Structure

2.2 Imports & Scoping

2.3 Types

2.4 Keywords

2.5 Builtins

2.6 Error Handling

2.7 Asynchronous Programming

3. Runtime & Bytecode

3.1 Symbols & Symbol Table

3.2 Scope Stack

3.3 Expressions

3.4 Instruction Set

4. Compiler

4.1 Architecture

5. Encoding

5.1 Considered Encodings

5.2 Encodings Benchmark

5.3 Protocol Buffers (+Snappy/Z-Standard)