baba is an embeddable scripting language which runs inside of ruby, and can seamlessly interop with ruby functions and objects. It is closest to C# in syntax, although does not feature semicolons at all. There are no primitives in baba- only objects.
Baba will take control of your ruby program when executing, and will yield execution when baba runs into a yield, optionally yielding a value which can be retrieved from Baba.yielded_value.
You can check if baba is yielded with Baba.yielded?. Resuming execution is done by Baba.continue or Baba.resume. (alias)
It's also possible to optionally specify an execution limit with Baba.execution_limit to automatically yield.
Multiple baba interpreters can be created and run at once too!
Baba may optionally compile down to a bytecode that can then be run at runtime.
From baba, it is possible to interop with ruby classes via the RubyObject class. You can pass in a classname to "get" the class, then call new on it to actually instantiate the class.
This functionality is to enable you to call class functions like SomeClass.class_method and to also call class instance methods at will.
Calling Ruby functions is fine as long as you don't pass in a complex Baba object not represented in Ruby.
It is also possible to create baba classes from Ruby if you desire. This is used by baba for its "core" types and baba's Object class.
baba provides a semi-packed Ruby API, akin to Ruby's C API. Allmost all baba objects are represented by Baba::Instance, sort of like Ruby's VALUE and various functions can be used to manipulate or them.
You can also create classes and methods in a "ruby extension" and load them in baba.
- Basic standard library (IO, Time, etc)
- Better include statement
- Include ruby files
- Default Object superclass
- Lists
- Everything is an object:tm:
- Splat args
- Default args
- rb_call
- Better error handling
- Operator overloading
- +=, *= etc...
- Metaclasses
- Move to ANTLR