yspace

yspace is a work-in-progress toolchain for the Whitespace programming language written in Rust.

Planned features

wspls language server
- Inline values for instruction names that are preserved while editing
- Debugging
wsvsc VS Code extension
- Syntax highlighting
- Render whitespace characters
- Disassembly panel
wsasm assembler
- Support all dialects
- Macros like Whitelips and others
- Support constant or address arguments like WhitespaceAssembler
- Linting
  - Warn on usage of multiple mnemonic for same instruction
  - Warn on inconsistent mnemonics between corresponding IO instructions
  - Warn on inconsistent mnemonic capitalization
wsdisasm disassembler
- Format according to dialect definition
- Automatically collapse constant or address arguments
- Format constants in ASCII range as chars
wspack compresser
- wsx-format compression and decompression
wspace interpreter
- File execution
- Whitespace Assembly REPL

Languages

Stack-based like Factor
- First-class closures (see “Closure elimination as constant propagation”)

Architecture plans

Written in Rust
Parses with parser combinators
LLVM backend
Use e-graphs for optimization ordering (Egg library)

License

This project is made available under the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.