Ginger

A lisp-like language built on the go programming language. The ideas are still a work-in-progress, and this repo is where I'm jotting down my notes:

Language manifesto

• Anything written in go should be writeable in ginger in as many lines or fewer.

• When deciding whether to be more go-like or more like an existing lisp language, err on being go-like.

• The fewer built-in functions, the better. The standard library should be easily discoverable and always importable so helper functions can be made available.

• When choosing between adding a syntax rule or a datatype and not adding a feature, err on not adding the feature.

• It is not a goal to make ginger code be usable from go code.

• Naming should use words instead of symbols, except when those symbols are existing go operators.

• Overloading function should be used as little as possible.