I’m writing a simple “CoffeeScript for C” right now for my CS 283 Systems Programming class’s final project. It’s due in two weeks, but my work so far is on Git

I’m writing a simple “CoffeeScript for C” right now for my CS 283 Systems Programming class’s final project. It’s due in two weeks, but my work so far is on GitHub now: https://github.com/roryokane/cs283-final-project https://github.com/roryokane/cs283-final-project. It won’t do much – it will just compile three kinds of syntactic sugar – but I hope to make it composable enough to extend it in the future. The three syntactic sugars I’m including are these: allow indents instead of {}; automatically add semicolons; remove parentheses from if/while/for conditionals. I’m trying to make my compiler robust enough to not cause problems like JavaScript’s automatic semicolon insertion does. This project is just CoffeeScript for C for now, but I’m aiming in the future to make a generic “CoffeeScript for C-like languages”, that can be adapted to work with languages like with ActionScript and Java with only minor tweaking.