From the README on GitHub:
- Small in size and complexity (just a bit more than Lua though)
- Statically typed
- Unambiguous
- No nonsense coercion
- Fibers
- JIT compilation with MIR
- Tooling
- Generate doc from docblocks (in progress)
- VS Code extension
- Syntax highlighting
- LSP (in progress)
- Debugger and DAP (planned)
The compiler is written in Zig.
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