jwpjrdev / lem-lang

A maintainable & intuitive Bash alternative

lem-lang

A maintainable & intuitive Bash alternative

Examples

Multiple examples can be found in the examples/ directory. To run one, run just example <file>. For example, if you wish to execute printing.lem, run just example printing.

lem-lang's Issues

Support shebangs

Add a proper release workflow

And change getting-started.md‘s installation section to reflect it

Revise docs to support `print` built-in

Add REPL to CLI

Add a flag like --interactive / -i for this

Add internal docs

Idea: add internal docs to describe things like Lem's grammar.

Implement more types & multiple parameters

Currently, the only valid type is strings. There's a whole bunch of others to implement (check out the docs).

In code, all builtin (soon to be function) arguments are just a single string. This makes for some very ugly code (there's no dedicated value struct or anything to hold data & manage types). After this is dealt with, the AST especially will hopefully be a lot more idiomatic.

Line terminators: yay or nay?

Should we have line terminators (e.g. semicolons at the end of lines)?
Currently, it's simpler to implement line terminators, but it would be preferred to remove them altogether.

Loosen requirements for scripts

Currently, scripts are required to be in a file that has an extension of .lem, but this is an unnecessary inconvenience. Eventually, this requirement will be removed.

Add mdbook-linkcheck

https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-linkcheck

Looser CLI input

Allow lem helloWorld to run either helloWorld or helloWorld.lem. If helloWorld exists, run it. Otherwise, run helloWorld.lem.