v0.0.1-alpha

Loa 0.0.1-alpha

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📐 Language Specification Updates

🧠 Basic Syntax and Structure Introduced

• Loa now supports essential language features for scripting and simple application development:

  • Variable assignment without type declaration (e.g., x = 10)

  • Indentation-based block structure (no {} needed)

  • UTF-8 fully supported for strings (e.g., Korean, Japanese)

  • Basic expressions with arithmetic and comparison operators

• This foundation enables readable, simple, and lightweight coding experiences.

✅ Added Features

🧠 Core Language Features

• Lexer, Parser, and Interpreter fully implemented

• Support for:

  • Variable assignment

  • Arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /)

  • Comparison operations (<, >, ==, !=)

  • print function with multiple arguments

  • while loops

  • if / else if / else conditional structures

  • Unicode (UTF-8) string handling

🧠 REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) Environment

• Interactive REPL for immediate code execution

• Supports variable declarations and expressions inside REPL

🔧 Bug Fixes

🐞 UTF-8 Handling in Lexer

• Fixed issues where non-ASCII characters (e.g., Korean) caused tokenizer crashes

• Lexer now correctly advances and peeks UTF-8 multi-byte characters

🐞 Indentation-Based Block Parsing

• Fixed parsing issues where inconsistent Indent/Dedent handling caused parsing failures

• Parser now correctly recognizes Indentation as block start/end

✨ Other Changes

🧠 WaveError-based Error System Integration

• Syntax errors now use a structured error format

• Error messages include file name, line, and column information (basic version)

🧠 Initial Target Binary Releases

• Built binaries for:

  • Linux aarch64

  • Linux x86_64 (GNU and MUSL)

  • Windows x86_64

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Thank you for using Loa! Stay tuned for future updates and enhancements.

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Contributor

@LunaStev | 🇰🇷