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# rlp
`rlp` (ruelang') will be a lazily-evaluated purely-functional language heavily
imitating Haskell.
### Potential Features
Listed in order of importance.
- [ ] ADTs
- [ ] First-class functions
- [ ] Higher-kinded types
- [ ] Typeclasses
- [ ] Parametric polymorphism
- [ ] Hindley-Milner type inference
- [ ] Newtype coercion
- [ ] Parallelism
### Milestones
(This list is incomplete.)
- [ ] Backend
- [x] Core language
- [x] AST
- [ ] Low-level evaluation model (STG)
- [x] Syntax
- [x] Arithmetic
- [ ] Emitter
- [ ] Code-gen (target yet to be decided)
- [ ] Core language emitter
- [ ] Core linter (Type-checker)
- [ ] Optimiser
- [ ] Let-floating
- [ ] TCO
- [ ] Frontend
- [ ] High-level language
- [ ] AST
- [ ] Lexer
- [ ] Parser
- [ ] Translation to the core language
- [ ] Constraint solver
- [ ] `do`-notation
- [ ] CLI
- [ ] Documentation (mostly for presentation)
- [ ] State transition rules
- [ ] How does an STG work?
- [ ] CLI usage
- [ ] Tail-calls