Random List of Ideal Ecosystem Tooling

[brekk]

A non-exhaustive-list-of-things-that-make-a-language-nice-to-use

(NELOFTMALNTU)

• auto-format + linting - prior art: prettier
• auto-documentation - potential integration jsdoc
• testing framework - prior art: tape (keep-it-simple-stupid) or jest (complex-yet-subtly-tricky)
• CLI string-formatting - avoid left-pad / colors / chalk headaches
• CLI tool building - prior art: yargs-parser
• build tool - prior art: rollup
• REPL - prior art: snang / ipython
• Solid and consistent standard library - prior art: ramda

[aboeglin]

I think we should roughly try to sort them by importance and effort and then see where we want to start spending our efforts. I think a standard library is still the first goal. As from there we can build all others within Madlib.

[aboeglin]

Formatting should be rather simple as we have an AST already. So instead of targeting JS, we just target Madlib. That's probably one of the only tools, appart maybe from the REPL, that I would write based on the code of the compiler.