spring2020.md

S20 WRIGHT LANGUAGE PROJECT PROPOSAL

Links:

Main Repo

Website

Mattermost channel: #wright-language

PM: Nia Calia-Bogan

• Mattermost: alfriadox
• RPI email: [email protected]
• email: [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected]

The team:

• Nia Calia-Bogan ([email protected])
• Jeff Lehmann ([email protected])
• Tom Sanford ([email protected])
• Ben Levy ([email protected])
• Thalia Nero ([email protected])

Description:

Wright Language is a multipurpose programming language and compiler written in rust using nom, clap, codespan, and a few other libraries. The main goal of this language is to enable productivity by providing a unique combination of the Object Oriented Programming and Functional Programming paradigms. Wright is mainly inspired by rust, but also includes aspects of java, scala, and kotlin.

Roadmap:

• January
  • Introduce project to RCOS
  • Recruit members
  • Finalize choices for libraries and frameworks to be used
• February
  • Complete literal parsers
  • Complete expression parsers
  • Complete statement parsers
• March
  • Complete type parsers
  • Finalize type semantic specs
  • Complete program parsers
  • Release preview version of wright.
• April
  • Implement program evaluation by treewalk evaluation
  • Finalize decisions for suitable target platforms and prioritize those
  • Implement compilation to first target.
  • Release wright 1.0.0.
• May
  • Implement wright standard libraries.
  • Possibly begin bootstrapping wright compiler.
  • Implement optimizations for first target.
  • Implement second target.
  • Release Wright 1.1.0.