libpapyrus is meant to be a fully featured toolchain for working with papyrus, the scripting language created by Bethesda for the Elder Scrolls and Fallout games series.
The main aim of this project is to provide the maximum amount of comfort to developers. This can be achieved by giving them some more tools that help save both time and mental energy.
A formatter, papyrusfmt, is an essential tool for any development environment in that in enables the programmer to truly focus only on what is absolutely necessary - making sure the code does what it is supposed to - and let the formatter handle the boring task of making sure everything is readable.
A linter helps catching all the simple errors and typos that are often overlooked when reviewing code. This tool gives you an immediate feedback on bugs, errors and other potentially dangerous things present in your work.
Lastly, a compiler, papyrusc, is the essential tool that enables you to actually make use of your code. This will be written completely from scratch making it 100% independent from the original compiler. This allows us to extend the language with extra features and optimizations that are not present in the original language.
Aditionally, all the source used in producing the tools above will be published as a Rust Crate so that others may make use of this project in making their own projects. While the binary tools will always be the main goal of this project there will be an effort to keep the backend library presentable and documented.
The current roadmap is below. Keep in mind this is subject to change during development.
- ✔ Build the Lexer
- ❌ Build the Syntax Parser
- ❌ Create the papyrusfmt binary
- ❌ Build the Lexical Parser
- ❌ Decide on a name for the linter
- ❌ Create the insert_name_here binary
- ❌ Build the AST
- ❌ Convert to
.pasassembly-like language - ❌ ???
- ❌ Create the papyrusc binary