Starling is a high-level programming language designed for data processing.

Requirements

Python (Prototyping) Implementation:

• Python 3
• llvmcpy (Python bindings for LLVM-C)

Zig Implementation:

• Zig
• LLVM

Design

Read more about the design and features of the language

Roadmap

Bootstrap

This will likely be done only in Python as a simple starting point.

• Prototype grammar
• Lexer
• Parser
• Basic codegen (maybe just an interpreter)

Initial Design

• Create initial language design goals
• Create initial roadmap
• Language grammar
• Codegen framework and support for different backends (compiled/interpreted)
  • Intemediate Representation (IR)
  • Interpreter
  • Compiler
• Testing suite
  • Lexer Tests
  • Parser Tests
  • IR Testing
  • Type Checker Tests
  • Interpreter Tests
  • Compiler Tests
• Base Feature Implementation
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • Structures
  • Interfaces
  • Methods/Impls
  • Arrays/Vectors
  • Strings

Core Development

• Import System
• Errors
• Optionals/nil
• Generic Typing
• Functions as expressions
• Higher-Order Functions
• Standard Library
• Zig implementation

Built-in and Plug-in Features

• Data Set Handling
  • CSV
  • Spreadsheet
  • XML/YAML
  • JSON
  • Database
• Mathematical Functionality
  • Trignometric Functions
  • Statistical Functions
  • Rational Number Handling
  • Complex Number Handling
  • Randomness
• Visualisation Tools
  • Graphing
  • Flowcharts
  • Schematics
• Extended Data Structures
  • Deques
  • Queues
  • Linked Lists
• System API
  • File System
  • Processes
  • System Info