Hmm, that's odd...
Odd is highly W.I.P. but these are the main goals of the language:
- Odd must have functional, expressive and flowing syntax.
- Programming "patterns" are often a sign of lacking expressiveness within a language. We like a solid language over SOLID patterns.
- Programs are read far more often than they are written. Odd should contain little to no weird jumps in program flow for readers to trip over.
- Odd must have no (unnecessary) dependencies.
- Full ownership of the codebase ensures any bug is our responsibility to fix, but also any feature ours to add.
- Odd must run on every machine (within reason, of course).
- WebAssembly is a promising target platform to immediately work on most devices.
- A tiny footprint should allow the language to be used or embedded anywhere. Imagine your IOT devices running Odd 🤯.
- Having an old(er) or less powerful device should never be a reason to be unable to program.
Feel free to contribute. Please read our contributing guidelines and then create an issue or a pull request.
ℹ️ Odd is guaranteed to work with NodeJS version 16.13.1, but should be compatible with earlier versions down to v12, possibly requiring the
--harmonyflag.
To try out Odd, download the repo and run it:
npm i; # install dependencies
npm run repl; # start a replℹ️ When Odd is finished, it will be a standalone executable requiring no separate Node installation, or any other dependency.
For a more in-depth look at how Odd works, have a look at the documentation.
Some work has yet to be done for odd to release as v1.0. The following is a list of development milestones to get to v1.0:
- 0.1: CLI REPL
- 0.2: Modules
- 0.3: Pattern matching
- 0.4: Type system
- 0.5: LSP for proper editor integration
- 0.6: Intelligble and helpful errors
...
- 1.0: 🏁 Standalone executable for real-world use.
Conceptualised and authored by @maanlamp. This project is licensed under MIT.