Cosmo

Cosmo is a statically-typed programming language written in pure Crystal.
We have an extension for VS code (source), however it currently only features syntax highlighting and code snippets.

Installation

Download the Cosmo Installer and run it.

Things I Gotta Do

Features

• Grammar
  • Regexes
  • Enums
  • Decorators
  • Interfaces
  • Namespaces
  • Classes
    • single inheritance
    • mixins
    • static/protected members
  • Better type system
    • bound expressions (!!)
    • type inference
    • generics
    • casting union types
    • implicit conversions
    • intersection types
• Other
  • Some form of multithreading
  • Intrinsic methods for all datatypes (inherit from a base type)
  • REPL supports multiline source

Fixes

• Pop completed traces
• Performance boosts lol
• Accessing private class members in public class methods

Tests

• Expectation of errors in parser spec

Refactorings

(empty)

Meta

• Package manager (WIP)
• Documentation generator?
• Linting/language server
• Highlight function names without parentheses

Things I Might Do

• Named arguments
• Make a Cosmo->C compiler
• C bindings

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Test your code (make test)
5. Push to the branch (make publish)
6. Create a new Pull Request

Have any questions or comments? Add me on Discord: runic#5997!

Contributors

• R-unic - creator and maintainer