Hi everyone!
After receiving a few issues and PR on ArkScript repositories, I figured that it could be a great idea to make a short guide (+ a presentation of the project) on how to make a quality contribution.
What is ArkScript?
ArkScript is a small, fast and functional scripting language for C++ projects, inspired by Lisp, running on its own virtual machine.
Our goal is to make a language with few keywords (if a language has too many, it's a bad practice because they are trying to fix things by adding new "features"), which nearly anyone can understand. Indeed, if you understand that everything after a ( is a function, you understand the whole language.
ArkScript is not just the compiler and virtual machine, it's also a package manager, nuclear, benchmarks against other languages, a growing standard library, and much more!
Quality contributions
Those are meaningful updates to any of those projects, thus not things like correcting indentation, adding two words on a README.md, adding an unrelated file to a project.
Alas those were the kind of PR (not all of them luckily) I received this morning, people being greedy for easy PR for the Hacktoberfest.
We have plenty of issues all over our repositories, even simple ones like:
- nuclear (package manager)
- Downloading a tar from Github
- [Generating the package list file after installing a package)(https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/nuclear/issues/4)
- standard library
- How to improve - thread, leading to more PR
- Ark (the core of the language)
- modules (C++ code loaded by the virtual machine to extend its capabilities)
- A bunch of small modules to add, from crypto functions, to mysql binding
- ArkScript-VSC (a visual studio code extension for coloration)
- benchmarks
So here we are, useful contributions would qualify as contributions adding something important to a project, fixing a bug, adding a functionnality.
Happy Hacktoberfest everyone!
Top comments (3)
I'm gonna check your package manager, it's one of the problems I have yet to solve for Gwion. Thanks!
I'm glad it can help!
I'll probably grab some ideas, but use bash instead of python (I'm not so much of a python guy).