Roadmap - TypeCobolTeam/TypeCobol GitHub Wiki
Here is a list of features we would like to be implemented, grouped by milestone.
Version 1.0 - Types and procedures (June 2017)
User features
TypeCobol language
- Type (weaked and strong) - specs comes from Cobol 2002 + Type
Strictclose to Strong - Intrinsic type based on Cobol 2002 type: Date, bool
::operator which is used as the dot operator in modern language- Procedures
- Shorter syntax to declare a procedure than a sub-program
- Control caller arguments during compilation time (partially)
- Control only number of arguments and their type
- Write clearly which arguments serves as input, output or both
- Propose visibility mechanism: only public and private for now
Code generation
- Generate Cobol 85 code from a TypeCobol source file
IDE integration
- Preprocessor integration for RDz
- POC for integration with RTC (https://github.com/TypeCobolTeam/TypeCobolBuild)
Propose a Console Interface
- Parse a Cobol file to check for errors
- Convert a TypeCobol source file to a Cobol 85 file
Technical Considerations
- Cobol 85 parser with lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis
- Grammer of Cobol 85 is almost complete
- Semantic error are very limited : basically we check if variable are defined
- Cobol 2002 grammar only for
Typedef - Incremental parsing is done till syntactic phase
Version 1.1 - Implement Language Server (March 2018)
Implement LanguageServer protocol for :
- parsing in real time
- completion
- error in real time
- go to definition
Version 1.2 - Optimization (June 2018)
- Migration from Antlr to CUPS. Semantic phase is now 10x faster.