Description

Toki Pona is a philosophical and artistic constructed language designed for its small vocabulary, simplicity, and ease of acquisition.

The idea is to bring the idea of simplicity to a new programing language using this language words and limitations to implement it.

The name for this programming language could be: "toki ilo" or "ilo pona". I will ask the community to get other ideas and also to get feedback about the initial design.

The idea is to start to implement something as a gcc frontend.

Goals

• The language design should be really simple but completely functional:
  • functions
  • variables
  • conditional
  • loop
  • data structures
• The keywords should be from toki pona, and better if could be read as pseudo code in toki pona
• It should be possible to "compile" code written in sitelen pona

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
• https://wasona.com/
• https://nimi.li/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitelen_Pona
• GCC frontend tutorial