About

Gloop is an experimental programming language created as a fun side project. It is designed to explore new ideas in language design and implementation. The language is implemented in Go and features a simple syntax and basic functionality to demonstrate core concepts.

The idea came about after reading the book “Writing an Interpreter in Go”, which inspired me to create my own language from scratch (well from Go..).

The future goals for Gloop is to expand the language features with any new concepts I find interesting. Obviously that comes with out any guarantee of stability or usability, but it’s a fun way to learn about programming languages and compilers.

Features

• A C-like syntax for familiarity
• Basic data types: integers, booleans, strings, Arrays and Hashes (maps)
• Control flow constructs: if-else statements, while loops, for loops
• Functions with parameters and return values
• Higher order functions and closures
• Built-in standard library functions for common tasks (well.. for now its extremely limited!)
• REPL for interactive coding and testing