RETRO & Nga - 2018 Projects

Note: it's probable that things will change as the year advances

Examples & Tools

  [ ]  Merge Gopher & HTTP servers into a single codebase
  [ ]  Gopher client for RRE
  [ ]  Debugger
  [ ]  Finish testing PL0 to RETRO transpiler backend (*)
  [ ]  Add a Muri (Nga assembly) backend for PL0 compiler (*)

Interfaces

  [ ]  Merge RRE I/O extensions into RI interface
  [ ]  Get RI interface to build on Windows
  [ ]  Get RI interface to build on DOS
  [ ]  Virtual memory support for the DOS version of the REPL

New Nga Implementations

  [ ]  ANS FORTH
  [ ]  JavaScript (prototype works)
  [ ]  Python
  [ ]  RETRO
  [ ]  Assembly (**)

       [ ]  ARM
       [ ]  ARM64
       [ ]  x86
       [ ]  x86-64
       [ ]  PIC32
       [ ]  RISC-V

macOS

  [ ]  Add Listener support for interactive tests
  [ ]  Add Documentation
  [ ]  Add Glossary browser
  [ ]  Expand I/O words
  [ ]  Keyboard shortcuts consistent w/iOS version

iOS

  [ ]  Add keyboard shortcuts
  [ ]  Stability improvements (try to catch more exceptions)
  [ ]  Add more examples
  [ ]  Add addditional fonts, size settings
  [ ]  Expand the RETRO URL scheme to be more useful (and
       document this!)

Documentation

  [ ]  Write a book on RETRO
  [ ]  Update, merge existing documentation into this


Distribution

  [ ]  FreeBSD Ports
  [ ]  NetBSD Pkgsrc


(*) https://github.com/oriontransfer/PL0-Language-Tools
(**) these are low on my priority list currently