GOALS

Primary

• A scripting language that allows smooth development of components (mainly for games), blending the performance and ease of large systems development wi

• Allow for data oriented programming without some of the hassles that come along with that. e.g. buffer creation/management, filter and aggregate

• Promote/advise developer with best practices, with code analysis and with full benchmark/cache miss analysis

• Allow simple separation of concerns.

• Compilation to machine code with LLVM as a dynamic library.

• Relatively easy swap out of user generated (dak_script) library at runtime.

• Easily add functions to the scripting language while using this library

• Mimic functional languages, and be statically typed

Secondary

• Gain familiarity with the inner workings of programming languages.

• Gain familiarity with testing frameworks & test driven design.

MVP

• Component creation.
  • Parse files
  • Lexer
  • Tokenizer
• Component Definition Sharing
• Parser "API"
  • static (non dll) functions
  • component functions that will be used by the program they are linked with (e.g. update, onStart)
• (user defined POD members)

TECHNICAL STACK

• cpp
• LLVM (script compilation)
• Catch2 (testing)
• CMake