Out of the ashes of the Carrie Programming Language rises the Lowell Programming Language. When I started designing and writing Lowell I first went to Carrie to see where I felt like I could improve:
- Terrible job parsing variable declarations, leading to ugly solution
- Functions required type notation for args, but never did any checking
- You can't assign a variable to the result of a function, opting instead for the lazy and terrible "bind" function
- Comments were incredibly finnicky to use
- "{}" couldn't be used to denote function blocks
- No custom data types
With these failings in mind, I set out to create a better programming language focusing on strong typing and functional programming. Still very early in development and with no compiler in sight, this is just a parser for the time being, but will eventually have code gen implemented in some capacity.