About kaoscript

What's kaoscript?

kaoscript is programming language combining features from ES7, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Rust, Swift, C# and more.

Currently, kaoscript is transpiled to JavaScript.

Why?

This project came to life due to an issue of JavaScript:

It's not recommended to extends natives classes to avoid any conflict with a JavaScript engine or a dependency.

But, because of that issue, your code consistency is broken!

For example, to call the array's functions map and clone, it is written differently:

array.map(...)
_.clone(array)

So how kaoscript fixes that issue?

kaoscript compiles array.clone() to _.clone(array) so you can keep your code consistency.

But, now, it became much more than that 😉

Features

🚧 This project is still in an experimental state due to major missing features like trait, mixin and operator overloading.

easy syntax: close to ES6 and Swift
fully OOP: extendable native classes but fully compatible with the node.js
partial/impl paradigm
async/await: don't need ES7
check variables existences
automatically declare variable: i = 0 => let i = 0
array range
for/to, for/til, for/in, for/of, for/range, until: no more for(;;)
comprehensions
typed or not let i = 0 or let i: Number = 0
automatic typing: on assignement with operator :=
type alias: type float = Number
generics
chained operations: 1 < x < 10
enum
namespace
import/export: import is the equivalent of node.js require
require: declare requirements (only for a module)
extern/declare: explicit global scope
typed import: import non-kaoscript objects and indicate their types
function overloading
advanced parameters
error handling: by default, it's à la Java but it's configurable
attributes
conditional compilation
macro

Roadmap

v1

Implements all accepted features

v2

Transpile to another language (Go, Python or Haxe)