IDEAS.md

Ideas

Implemented: 17/25

• Unions
• Enums
• Generics
• Operator overloading
• when and symbol construct
• Add stdlib.safe: A library that disables c bindings and makes the language safer
• Function overloading (by return)
• Rethink assembly interface (regs as variables, ...)
• RAII
• Structs
• Access operator (.)
• Function overloading (by args)
• Deprecate ma_cnt (count builtin)
• Add literal builtin (pass arg directly to backend)
• Deprecate off_of (cannot be reproduced in c)
• type_of builtin -> str literal.
• Check for circular imports.
• Type inference.
• Type definitions.
• Namespaces.
• Ruby-like heredocs.
• Non-integer boolean type.
• file & line builtins.
• References.
• Cast builtin.