yapl

Yet Another Programing Language

Transforms JSON to JSON using YAML as syntax.

How to run

$ cargo run --bin interp examples/hello_world.yapl

TODO

• Fix + to be on the function key, not the non-function keys.
• Finish making hello_servlet.yapl work.

Things to try

• Immutable?
• No classes

Programs to write

• Some simple adventure game
• JSON RPC server

Library to write

• HTML serializer / JSON to HTML (e.g. @HTML)
• JSON scheme validator
• Library for string manipulation
• Library for doing math

Similar projects

• [https://github.com/scravy/jinsi]
• [https://github.com/benlue/jsonfp]
• [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618038/xslt-equivalent-for-json]

Constructs that should be expressible

• List and object comprehensions
  • [for (<expr>) <expr>]
  • {for (<expr>) <expr> : <expr>}
• Source of stdlib ideas
  • [https://github.com/chrisdone/jl#available-functions]
• Pathing syntax
  • [https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/]
  • [https://github.com/dfilatov/jspath]