Goals for Kipper

The goal of Kipper is to provide an easy to learn and type-safe language, which tries to be as straight-forward and secure as possible with features, such as:

• Full type safety to ensure if possible that all errors occur on compile time, not runtime.
• Runtime types and type checking, which allow variable types to be checked during runtime, if their type can not be evaluated during compile time. For example when using JSON.parse() and the object type is unknown.
• Full translation to/and integration with JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Custom Operator Overload Methods for specifying custom behaviour for specific operators. These will be similar to the Python dunder methods.
• Type Conversion Overloading to customise conversion behaviour.
• Runtime errors for invalid operations. No hidden errors like in JavaScript.
• Null safety, by enforcing non-null types unless explicitly allowed.

Roadmap for Kipper

All active changes, issues and development plans are tracked on the following sites on GitHub. If any changes occur they will be reported there first:

• Project Roadmap
• Issues Tracker
• GitHub Project Panel