**WARNING!! THIS LANGUAGE IS IN DEVELOPMENT (AND FOR LEARNING PURPOSES). ANYTHING CAN CHANGE AT ANY MOMENT.** 🖐 **SLAP** stands for "**SL**ow **A**nd **P**owerless." And I hope to make it "**P**owerful" someday.
**SLAP** is a dynamically- and strongly-typed, object-oriented programming language. Its syntax is a member of the C family with a bit of difference. ## Example As of March 2022, you can write pretty decent, small programs in SLAP. >*Note*: The SLAP-to-JS transpiler is in progress (see [compiler branch](https://github.com/bichanna/slap/tree/compiler)).

SLAP-to-JS Compiler Example

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## Installation On Linux/macOS, you may be able to run the following commands to install SLAP. ``` $ git clone https://github.com/bichanna/slap.git $ cd slap $ chmod +x ./build.sh $ ./build.sh # The SLAP Vim highlighter automatically gets installed ``` For Windows, I haven't written bat version of `build.sh`, so you have to manually compile the source code. ``` $ nimble build --multimethods:on -d:release ``` Then, mark it as an executable file if necessary, and try running `slap --version`. ``` $ slap --version SLAP 0.0.3 ``` You may want to test current SLAP you just built before running your programs. ``` $ nimble test ``` ## TODO *Note:* If you have a feature request, please open an issue. ### Main - [x] Basic Data Types - [x] Integer - [x] Float - [x] String - [x] Boolean - [x] Null - [x] List - [x] Map - [x] Basic Arithmetics - [x] Variables - [x] If Statements - [x] elif - [x] else - [x] While Loops - [x] For Loops - [x] Break - [x] Continue - [x] "Enhanced" for loop (in the form of `forEach`) - [ ] Try-except Blocks - [x] Functions - [x] Lambdas (anonymous functions) - [x] Default Arguments - [x] Rest Parameters - [x] Standard Library - [x] Std - [x] String - [x] OS - [x] I/O interfaces - [x] Math - [ ] Networking - [x] Classes - [x] Class Methods - [x] Inheritance - [ ] Abstract Class (Interface) - [x] Import - [ ] Concurrency - [ ] Virtual Machine Compiler ### Others - [x] Assignment Shorthands (e.g, `+=`, `*=`) - [x] String Interpolation - [ ] Optional Type Annotations - [x] Multi-line Comments - [x] Vim Highlighter - [ ] VSCode Highlighter - [x] Transpiler (to JavaScript) - [ ] Newline As Statement Separator ## Contribution Bug reports and contributions are always welcome :)
Please be sure to add test files if you want to add new features (see [tests directory](https://github.com/bichanna/slap/tree/master/tests#tests) for more info). ## Credits I learned a lot from - [Oak programming language](https://github.com/thesephist/oak) by [thesephist](https://github.com/thesephist) - [Bob Nystrom (munificent)](https://github.com/munificent)'s great book, [*Crafting Interpreters*](https://craftinginterpreters.com/).