gil: Greg's Ideal Language

In my experience, programmers love to talk about programming languages: what they like, what they dislike, what they would do differently. I'm no different.

Instead of griping about existing programming languages, though, I'm taking a different approach. What if there were an ideal language, one unconstrained by the usual tedious constraints? What if I could design my own ideal language?

Well, here it is: GIL, Greg's Ideal Language. This is a thought experiment in language design.

What this isn't

This is not a working programming language. There's no code in here, no compiler, no runtime, no standard library.

A taster

Here's what a small GIL program looks like:

import os

func main(args: [string]): int {
    if args.len() < 1 {
        os.stderr.println("usage: hello NAME")
        return 1
    }

    name = args[0]
    println(f"hello {name}")
    return 0
}

Take a look at the introduction to GIL to learn more.