Odd Language

Hmm, that's odd...

🧠 Philosophy

Odd is highly W.I.P. but these are the main goals of the language:

• Odd must have functional, expressive and flowing syntax.
  • Programming "patterns" are often a sign of lacking expressiveness within a language. We like a solid language over SOLID patterns.
  • Programs are read far more often than they are written. Odd should contain little to no weird jumps in program flow for readers to trip over.
• Odd must have no (unnecessary) dependencies.
  • Full ownership of the codebase ensures any bug is our responsibility to fix, but also any feature ours to add.
• Odd must run on every machine (within reason, of course).
  • WebAssembly is a promising target platform to immediately work on most devices.
  • A tiny footprint should allow the language to be used or embedded anywhere. Imagine your IOT devices running Odd 🤯.
  • Having an old(er) or less powerful device should never be a reason to be unable to program.

🤸 Contribute

Feel free to contribute. Please read our contributing guidelines and then create an issue or a pull request.

🖥️ Usage

Download the latest release here.

Local development

Firstly, make sure you have installed NodeJS and its package manager, npm.

Odd is guaranteed to work with Bun version 1.1.7 and NodeJS version 20.11.1, but should be compatible with earlier Node versions down to v12 (inclusive, possibly requiring the --harmony flag).

We recommend you use Yarn as a package manager over npm. Of course, using npm is fully supported, and it comes with Node out-of-the-box!

Afterwards, open up your shell of choice and run the following commands:

yarn; # install dependencies (you can use npm i).
bun run repl; # start a repl

Compiling from source

You can compile the source to a binary yourself, using the build command:

bun run build; # compile
./build/odd # run the repl binary.

For a more in-depth look at how Odd works, have a look at the documentation.

🗺️ Roadmap

Some work has yet to be done for odd to release as v1.0. The following is a list of development milestones to get to v1.0:

• 0.1: CLI REPL
• 0.2: Modules
• 0.3: Pattern matching
• 0.4: Type system (ℹ️ available for testing in v0.4.0-alpha)
• 0.5: LSP for proper editor integration
• 0.6: Intelligble and helpful errors

...

• 1.0: 🏁 Standalone executable for real-world use.

© License

Conceptualised and authored by @maanlamp. This project is licensed under MIT.