onion

A Stack language compiled to lua. Aims to be like a bit like forth, with concessions made to needing to compile to lua, as well as first class support for a "subject stack" that allows a very pleasant stack-based version of object interaction.

Requirements

The compiler needs LuaJIT, or Lua 5.2+. The generated Lua can be 5.1 depending on what function calls you use, but won't polyfill things for you.

Guides

See Onion in Y minutes for an overview of the concepts of Onion. There is a Quick Reference as a one-pager/reminder of the various Onion concepts.

Usage

Run/compile code

Compile an Onion file to Lua:

lua cli.lua --compile script.fth out.lua

Execute an Onion file

lua cli.lua --exec script.fth

Assumption check commands

Print out the tokens as recognized by the lexer, delimited with [ and ].

lua cli.lua --lex script.fth

Print out the lua resulting from compiling script.fth

lua cli.lua --comptest script.fth

Plan

• Currently: Onion compiler in lua
• TODO: Onion compiler in Onion