Goals for Kipper
The goal of Kipper is to provide a simple and easy to learn language, which tries to be as straight-forward and secure as possible with features, such as:
- Full type safety to ensure 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(). - Runtime errors for invalid operations. No hidden errors like in JavaScript.
- Null safety, by enforcing non-null types unless explicitly allowed.
- Full translation and integration with JavaScript and TypeScript.
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: