Tunk
Tunk is a
- strongly and dynamically typed
- pure functional
- interpreted
- general use
programming language. Tunk is a hobby project written for educational purposes, and is inspired by languages such as Elm and Haskell.
Running Tunk
Build the tunk interpreter with cargo:
cargo build --release
Run tunk on a source file:
target/release/tunk run samples/recursion.tunk
Run tunk REPL:
target/release/tunk repl
TODO
- 𝛂-conversion to avoid variable name collisions in recursive functions
- anonymous function syntax (
\x y -> x) - A pipeline operator (
argument |> function) - A function composition operator (
inner >> outer) - tail call recursion optimization
- more primitives:
list,tuple - list/monad operations
map,filter,reduce - an effect system for handling IO etc.
Author
Jan Tuomi, <jans.tuomi@gmail.com>