Hog/QL tasklist - Githubissues

Consolidated todos for the Hog language. There's another list to track the HogQL todos, and this does not directly touch upon the CDP project. This list is a work in progress.

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[x] Hog in template string
[x] Objects, arrays, tuples and nested assignment
[x] Support for JSON parsing and stringifying
[x] Add bytecode to state for serialization
[x] Run the same set of tests for both python and typescript VMs
[x] Debugger
[x] Bit of AST/VM work
- [x] Global objects fail
- [x] Can we get rid of semicolons
- [x] Return does not work without a value but gets interpreted as a field/string (fixed in the same PR)
- [x] for loops
- [x] Add more comment types?
- [x] How to call ~Log/Print/Echo~ print
[x] Placeholders should not parse inside Hog
[x] Trailing commas
[x] C++ parser
[x] Make editing Hog not suck v1 (errors, syntax highlighting)
[x] Make editing Hog not suck v2 (autocomplete for template strings and expressions)
[x] Make editing Hog not suck v3 (autocomplete in Hog, bring in inputs and other globals)
[ ] Swap to RE2 for regex in HogVMs - make regexes safe for user input (see codeql)
[ ] Add resource monitoring and limits to ensure things like unbounded Arrays don't exhaust resources (see codeql)
[ ] Ensure function access is definitely safe (see codeql)
[ ] Ternary operators (? :) don't work (translated to if(...)
[ ] Nullish coalescing (?.) support
[ ] Spec out the STL and then add all the functions
[ ] Date functions
[ ] Quit early (no 2nd hop after webhooks if not needed)
[ ] Keep using maps in TS?
[ ] for-in loops
[ ] Run Hog natively in the browser
[ ] Make a decision on string quotes and dict keys
[ ] Make a decision on array indexes starting with 0 vs 1
[ ] Implement lambdas and closures
[ ] Get HogQL/SQL nodes into the bytecode to run(select *) natively
[ ] Types for variables and function arguments / return
[ ] Prettier for Hog/QL

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