I'm currently working on a scripting language that aims to "make developers' lives a little sweeter". It's called Amai, it runs on a bytecode VM and is statically typed. Right now, I'm working on it solo. The current version (as of publishing this blog) has variables, if-else statements, basic expressions, and while loops. There's no documentation right now but the average Amai code looks like:
let x = 10; // immutable
var y = 10; // mutable
x += 1; // will error
y += 2; // OK
while y > 0 do y -= 1; // while
// you can also do blocks
while y < 10 do {
y += 1;
}
// everything is an expression, even blocks
// though if you want to make multi-statement bodies, you’ll have to use blocks
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I'm currently working on a scripting language that aims to "make developers' lives a little sweeter". It's called Amai, it runs on a bytecode VM and is statically typed. Right now, I'm working on it solo. The current version (as of publishing this blog) has variables, if-else statements, basic expressions, and while loops. There's no documentation right now but the average Amai code looks like:
let x = 10; // immutable
var y = 10; // mutable
x += 1; // will error
y += 2; // OK
while y > 0 do y -= 1; // while
// you can also do blocks
while y < 10 do {
y += 1;
}
// everything is an expression, even blocks
// though if you want to make multi-statement bodies, you’ll have to use blocks
let z = if x == 10 then 1 else 2; // if-else
let w = if x == 10 then {
let r = 10;
r + 2
} else {
let e = 12;
e + x
};
// note: semicolons are just a separator, it can be optional
// but is recommended to disambiguate when parsing
let x = 10
let y = 2 // OK. parsing won’t mess up (at least in this version of Amai)
let u = (); // unit