Inquiry: Making a programming language for sparkscript about sparkscript HOT 23 OPEN

hello sorry for the late reply i haven't looked at the repo page in a while.
that sounds like a neat idea, you could have a wrapper around sparkscript to make stuff like that
you're free to make whatever you want with sparkscript, as long as its not with malicious intent.

sparkscript will probably not be lightweight any time soon because i have to bundle the actiondump file with it to extract types and type intellisense for convenience.
and it would be almost done if not for the fact that DiamondFire has duplicate actions for separate codeblocks 😑

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In that case you could really make
sspkg [name] run npm install sspkg-[name]

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@mavthedev should probably send a mention..

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talk to me on Discord because i'll have to close this issue

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reopened for discussion

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@GeorgeRNG @silvxrcat @mavthedev
you too @RedVortexDev

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make it dfonline
I think we would have a system to authenticate users which I have tried to make with dfonline once, and I could see if I can get dfonline to have proper system for packages

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so first off, the programming language itself is a large obstacle. we'll have to assign keywords and feed that into a tokenizer, then parse the output & make it stack oriented so that we can handle operations correctly. we should find a syntax we like.

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make it dfonline I think we would have a system to authenticate users which I have tried to make with dfonline once, and I could see if I can get dfonline to have proper system for packages

if dfonline is what we're going to use to host the packages, that's perfectly fine, but i'm getting some errors loading a template.

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we should make sure to give an error if the template fails to load

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but i'm getting some errors loading a template.
where are you loading these templates? The backend for the site isn't the best to say the least, or is it something else?

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Interesting, a programming lang for df with a pm stored on dfonline, truley the most epic collaboration of all

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Though this could be of use: https://craftinginterpreters.com

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A tutorial for making a programming language with tokenizers in java, pretty sure we all know Java

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lets keep the topic about the package manager
the programming language is a bit out of scope

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the package manager sounds like a pretty sick idea
being able to import library templates and having intellisense and autocomplete

as for defining the library templates themselves i have thought about that

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the package manager sounds like a pretty sick idea

I tried to make a language with a package manager, I didnt really finish it bc I got bored, but it used supabase and gzipped the package files

being able to import library templates and having intellisense and autocomplete

That's way more work 🫤

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pretty sure we all know Java

AHHEM 😬

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Also there should be some sort of export keyword that is ignored at compile time but is used by the pm to check what should be accesible.

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being able to import library templates and having intellisense and autocomplete

That's way more work 🫤

i was referring to sparkscript not the language
you could essentially do something along the lines of npx sspkg add library_name
and it would import the code for that library and in js do something like:

const df = require("sparkscript").uses("library_name");
const template = df("example", e => {
    e.action.someActionInTheLibrary(/* args */);
});

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as for the language, idk

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being able to import library templates and having intellisense and autocomplete

That's way more work 🫤

i was referring to sparkscript not the language

you could essentially do something along the lines of npx sspkg add library_name

Ahhh makes sense 👍🏾

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i forgot to mention this but i will allow the ability to compile code from other languages such as Spark (till v2 comes out) and Kindling and Blackstone

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