Homiconic C

Introduction

Homoiconic C (HC) is a single universal language for code and data. This repository contains the first implementation of HC as an interpreter written in TypeScript running on deno.

It also contains a sample application called MAML, the Multipurpose Abstract Markup Language. MAML is a radically simple proposal for replacing all the existing web technologies (HMTL, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, etc.) with a single format based on HC.

HC can also be used to define easily-parseable variants of other common file formats (e.g., HCSV, HCSON).

Usage

deno install
export DEBUG=true # optional
deno task hc

This will launch the interpreter.

BitScheme

TODO: Port to Deno

To generate and run the BitScheme documentation, type:

npm run bs:all

This will open the BitScheme.html file, and also run the documentation through the testdoc evaluator which will generate pass/fail messages.

Development

1. Clone the github repository.

2. Install deno.

   • e.g., brew install deno on macOS.

3. Run deno task test.

NOTE: The language-hclang vscode extension is still being updated.

Publishing

From the feature branch:

1. Update CHANGELOG.md and version in deno.json

2. Run deno task tag to commit version and tag release

3. Merge PR to main to publish

Should automatically publish to jsr.