Roadmap

[can3p]

Hey,

I think it would be very useful to have some list of things that we would like to see in stu(tter).
Let me begin with my wishlist:

• Rename project to stu (see b802bc5)
• Consistent error reporting
• Multiline repl
• Data structures support - sets, hash tables, lists
• Modules support
• Standard library for strings manipulation, i/o etc.

[mikey-austin]

We definitely need this and is a great start; @pbu88 asked me about a roadmap awhile back.

I'd like to add to your nice list:

• Factor out all functionality into a libstu, for easier embedding in other projects
• Make a perl extension to drive the stu interpreter
• Move to autotools, and test on more systems
• Use your mentioned features to build OO functionality
• Nice exceptions
• Implement a step debugger

Some performance improvements are to make a memory slab allocator and change Sv_new, Sv_destroy, Env_new and Env_destroy to use it. This will mean we can batch mallocs & frees (hence the slabs), which will make it much more performant, especially for deeply nested recursive calls.

Also I'm going to add a public extension API so that native lisp objects can be manipulated in C, and also have C functions be able to be exported to lisp land.

[mikey-austin]

Oh and I'd like to do some coverage/profiling with gprof to see where the bottlenecks are.