Stitch Language

This repository houses a proof-of-concept language for building Flow-based programs with a minor emphasis on data collection. The language will potentially make its way into the Gaufre runtime which is used as a common graph execution runtime.

Goals for the stitch language

The goals for the language itself are fairly simple:

• Provide a syntax that is fairly intuitive to read, but not too verbose.
• Provide constructs that allow code re-use, such as functions, macros, etc.
• Provide constructs to allow automated schema discovery.

Some extra things that would be nice to have:

• Provide in-code documentation capabilities (eg. documenting the above mentioned schema discovery)

Building / Experimentation

The current state of stitch centers around a REPL that is implemented in this repository. Building the REPL is simple and requires only the use of make:

$ make
Building: v0.1.3-04fee9f-dirty
$

This will build a versioned binary in the root of the repo named stitch. You can run the binary with no arguments in order to explore the REPL:

./stitch
Stitch
v0.1.3-04fee9f-dirty

Use '.quit' to quit, or '.help' for help
>>

Once in the REPL, any valid stitch syntax can be entered.

Goals for stitch CLI

In order to help build working stitch definitions I'd like the CLI to offer the following feature.

• Compile stitch into gaufre graph
• Produce dot of resulting graph
• Output the schema produced by the stitch
• Error on unknown variables, with suggestions for misspellings.
• Detect cycles.
• Detect unused subgraphs.

REPL Goals

• Provide an interactive method for building and testing graphs.
  • Run graphs for testing.
  • Allow Watches
  • Allow Breakpoints
  • Output generated data