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musictheory / NilScript

Objective-C-style language superset of JavaScript with a tiny, simple runtime

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Rename to NilScript #136

Closed iccir closed 5 years ago

iccir commented 6 years ago

We've been pondering this for a few years:

Historically, "oj" started as a word play on "Objective-J" - we needed a tiny Objective-J-like language which would work in our existing infrastructure. Over time, "oj" evolved to be it's own language. In several cases, we took an opposite path from Objective-J (and Objective-C).

While the name of the language enables fun citrus-based puns, it also overlaps with existing npm packages (multiple people, including myself, have accidentally done npm install oj instead of ojc).

Going forward, we're going to rename oj to NilScript.

iccir commented 6 years ago

Short term changes:

[x] Deprecate the ojc npm package
[x] Publish version 2 on npm as nilscript
[x] Documentation changes
~~Rename oj global to ???, alias back to oj for compatibility. (Alias will be removed in next major version)~~ (not until 3.0).

iccir commented 6 years ago

3.0 changes:

[x] Rename ojc binary to nsc (Mirrors TypeScript).
[X] Rename oj global to nilscript
[X] Rename $oj_oj in generated code to N$$_
[X] Squeezer: rename $oj$ prefix to N$

iccir commented 5 years ago

All tasks should be complete and in the 3.0 branch.