[leafo]

Hey all, thanks to whoever posted this.

I'm the creator of MoonScript. I code in MoonScript daily, it's an integral part of many of my projects, including the company I run. It's something I launched a very long time ago, it's been featured on HN quite a few times now!

I feel a little bad for threads like this: if you look at the github or the website, it hasn't seen any significant updates in quite some time. The reality is, though, it's reached a level of stability where I don't need to worry about it and I can work on using it to build other things. Although I have many ideas to fundamentally change it, introduce new operators, paradigms, etc., at the end of the day I value more that is has stayed pretty consistent. I have 100s of thousands of lines of MoonScript running in production environments. I'm more interested in refining the tooling & squashing bugs. I'm considering just bumping the version to 1.0 so people don't get confused about the viability of using it. If it's something you think fits your needs then go for it. I will continue to support it indefinitely because of how integrated it is into many of my projects.

Tell me if you have any questions, thanks!

[fit2rule]

Thanks for your hard work leafo! As a huge fan of Lua I'm always bumping into your contributions to the language and tools ..

Do you have some place where you organise your thoughts and make plans for Moonscripts' future?

[leafo]

Not really, all of my time is going into my company so I'm not really thinking about big picture stuff with MoonScript.

Some things I would like to eventually finish though:

* JavaScript output backend https://github.com/leafo/moonscript-javascript-compiler

* Replacing the AST transfomer with something written in tableshape: https://github.com/leafo/tableshape

* Experimenting with writing an lpeg alternative that works more like a parser generator, experimented here https://github.com/leafo/moonparse

* Formalizing the syntax transformation pipeline (this would be how things like macros could be implemented)

If you have ideas feel free to open issues on the github. I may not be able to reply immediately but at least they are written down somewhere. Thanks

[dvfjsdhgfv]

Thanks for this mindset! As a Python developer, I appreciate it a lot!