passerine 0.6.0

Welcome to Passerine! Passerine is a small, concise, extensible programming language, powered by a VM written in Rust. It was inspired by Scheme, OCaml, Rust, and Wren. Here's a small taste:

-- defining a macro
syntax 'for 'each var 'in list do {
    body = var -> do

    loop = remaining -> {
        match remaining {
            () -> (),
            [head & tail] -> { body head; remaining tail }
        }
    }

    loop list
}

-- using said macro
for each number in (reverse [1, 2, 3]) {
    print (number + "...")
}

print "Liftoff!"

Getting Started

If you just want to see what Passerine can do:

NOTE: Passerine is in an early stage of development. It's just barely reached the stage of theoretically being Turing-complete, but don't @ me yet.

1. Clone this git repository.
2. Build Passerine with cargo.
3. Run the tests.

If you'd like to contribute:

1. Get Passerine.
2. Start developing. CONTRIBUTING.md has general guidelines and discusses project structure

Roadmap

This is a loose roadmap of the features we plan to add to Passerine to reach 1.0.