{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029/events","html_url":"https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029","id":127329418,"number":1029,"title":"Name ideas for a rusty dynamically typed scripting language","user":{"login":"bvssvni","id":1743862,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1743862?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni","html_url":"https://github.com/bvssvni","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/labels/discussion","name":"discussion","color":"bfe5bf"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-01-18T23:16:21Z","updated_at":"2016-01-18T23:18:03Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The past days I've been working on a scripting language for fun: https://gist.github.com/bvssvni/c473c82242b1460a6741\r\n\r\nIt's a mix of Rust, Go and JavaScript.\r\n\r\n- Just developed for fun right now\r\n- Using [Piston-Meta](https://github.com/pistondevelopers/meta) for parsing, so people can change the syntax without recompiling\r\n- Goal: To develop a scripting language that is ordinary - specifically avoiding weird or fancy stuff\r\n- Does not use a garbage collector yet - uses lots of `.clone()` though and can unsafely return local variables inside objects\r\n- Go like `for i := 0; i < n; i += 1 { ... }` loops and `:=` for variable initialization and `=` for mutable assignment\r\n- Dynamically typed, similar to Javascript: Arrays `[1, 2, 3]` and objects `{x: 0, y: 0}` (however, `=` expects same type)\r\n- Function declaration similar to Rust: `fn foo() -> { ... }` for functions that returns a value and `fn foo() { ... }` for functions that does not return a value\r\n- Variable name shadowing like in Rust"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/comments/172678846","html_url":"https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029#issuecomment-172678846","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/PistonDevelopers/piston/issues/1029","id":172678846,"user":{"login":"bvssvni","id":1743862,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1743862?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni","html_url":"https://github.com/bvssvni","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bvssvni/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-18T23:18:02Z","updated_at":"2016-01-18T23:18:02Z","body":"Some ideas for naming:\r\n\r\n- DynamoScript\r\n- Rustus\r\n- Sneik"}}