tyche/TODO.md

C

Decisions:

• How to handle errors

• How values and heap values will be represented

• Transparency and log levels

• Makefile

• VALUE

• Stack

  • Test application

• Heap

  • Heap value
  • Strings
  • Arrays
  • Tables

• VM

  • (Lua interface) call assembler
  • (Lua) generate bytecode
    • Labels
  • Code
    • Interpret bytecode (fast)
  • Execution loop (fast)

• VM operations

  • Expressions
  • Local variables
  • Functions
    • With parameters
  • Debug VM execution
  • Control flow
    • Recursion
  • Strings
    • From constants
    • Garbage collection
  • Arrays
    • Garbage collection
  • Tables
    • Garbage collection
    • Metatables
    • Iteration
  • Floats (real)
  • Globals (?)
  • Error handling
    • Stack trace in case of errors
  • Closure/upvalues
  • Rest of opcodes

• Prepare for release

  • Documentation and webpage

Future versions

• Debugging information
• Debugger
• Dynamic language
• Support tools
  • Editor syntax file, etc
• Static language