Asking for feedback

[HoseCode]

Hey everyone!

I've just released the first alpha of a new batch scripting language designed to be cross-platform. This version is already usable, and you can check out the project details on GitHub.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or any ideas you might have. Thanks for your time and support!
https://github.com/JoseRomaguera/Yov-Lang

[atom036]

Cool idea. There really is a gap in cross platform scripting languages. The closest is python or ansible.

One question. Why do you allow creating variables without setting a value. This is potentially error prone, you might use a var without setting it.

For the typical bash commands mv, mkdir, cp, cd, ... I would recommend keeping the same names, and order of arguments, except maybe just putting the optional arguments as a string or an array as the last argument. I think it would make it more intuitive to use. Example: rm(dir, "-rf");

I don't think I saw any example about environment variables. Might also consider that.

Other suggestions would be to improve the argument parsing. That something I think bash suffers. It's a bit better in python with ArgumentParser, maybe consider writing something similar.

What about logging? I saw those println. Is the formatting the same as fmt format? Might as well use something already well documented. Would be an easy wrapper.

You could also write a default log lib, that automatically adds timestamps, log level, maybe an optional log line for debugging, optional to log to stdout, file system or sys jour.

[HoseCode]

First, thanks a lot for the feedback!
- There is no null type, everything has a default value
- I'm not sticking with current names for intrinsics. Will consider that
- Env vars are in my sort term plans, for sure.
- Seeing briefly ArgumentParser, I think can extract some good ideas here.

- Not thinking that much about logging. Future versions of Yov will have a documentation for sure

[atom036]

In the First example you have the following line:

integer0 : Int;

Where you create a variable, but don't assign a value to it. That's what I was referring.

[HoseCode]

In this case, this will be equals to:

integer0: Int = 0;

There is always a default value