This is hotshot. A LISP based language aimed to be used as bash scripts.
You need to install the Go compiler to build the compiler. It uses a Pure Go implementation and doesn't require any other dependency.
You can even build a complete static binary without any dynamic libraries.
After you have the go compiler working. Simply run
go build .This should build the entire project and produce a binary named hotshot.
You can run ./hotshot --help (On Unix) to get more help about it.
You can run ./hotshot without any arguments to start the REPL. This acts like any other REPL completely supporting readline and even history.
You can type multi-line statements with ease.
If you have written a file with working hotshot code, (optionally) save it with a extension of .ht (Not at all needed, but we prefer it).
Use the following command to run the file.
./hotshot <file>You can use other flags to have debug info or perform other operations with the source code/interpreter.
The test are written again in Go's native test runner.
You can run
go test ./... to run all the tests.
Or go test ./lexer to run specific tests (lexer in this case).
You can use the -v flag to provide information about all the subtests being run.
go test -v ./...This project is under heavy development and contributions are highly appreciated. A lot of decisions are already taken regarding the language, but a lot of them are still remaining. Hope you can join us in making them.