Loop

Bringing Cloud Tools to a “Provider-less” Programming Language
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Note: Loop is still in its early days of development, and thus is not production-ready. 1

Get started (usage)

Download a pre-built binary from downloads.looplang.org
Run ./loop to start the REPL environment or
Run ./loop FILENAME.loop to run a specific file.

Get Started (development)

Make sure you have Rust installed
Clone the repository git clone https://gitlab.com/looplanguage/loop
Enter the repository cd loop
Run the command cargo run
The Loop shell should now popup

Go to our Jira board to see all the issues and tasks to work on.

To see code documentation, run the command: cargo doc --open. A browser tab will open with generated documentation from code comments. You can also go to: https://docs.looplang.org/internal to find more architectural documentation of the interpreter.

Project structure

Below you will find the project structure for Loop, to find a more detailed explanation of the interpreter itself go the internal documentation.

examples/*: Examples of Loop code as reference
script/*: Scripts to use in I.E. the pipeline
tests/*: End2End tests for Loop
src/lib/*: Utility functions, library-esque, rutime code
src/picasso/*: The crate which compiles Loop to Arc
src/vinci/*: The crate to parse Arc code
src/sanzio/*: The to-lua-compiler and interpreter crate

Guidelines

If you want to contribute to one of the projects, it is recommenced to read two things: development guidelines and the contributor guidelines.

Code of Conduct

To read our code of conduct, go to the website.