Vision

To make an easy to read and manipulate grammar for every major language throughout history.

If this is done, we'll be able to:

• create super powerful text editors
• implement robust (and simple) syntax highlighters that we have full control over
• implement code completion
• whip together your own programming language, building off of one of the others or starting your own from scratch (and get syntax highlighting along with it)
• convert one language into another (if a grammar for assembly was created, potentially even compile a language directly to assembly or machine code)
• build all kinds of other tools around the languages, for linting, optimizing, extending, whatever

The goal is to create a sort of simple API for defining the grammar rules for a language, so it's easy to understand, to build tools around, and to create custom languages from.

Each grammar is defined in JavaScript, so it's super easy to do. Then we can just build a compiler that takes a grammar and outputs something like a BNF or PEG grammar text file for fun, but those are pretty obtuse to use directly.