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This document is a wishlist, its items aren't ordered in any way other than inline notes about dependency relations

Language

None! Thanks to very aggressive modularization, changes to the core language are almost never needed to achieve specific goals

Rules

Placeholder constraints

Simultaneously match a pattern to a subexpression and give it a name to copy it over

Role annotations

Some way for the rule repository to record the roles certain tokens took in patterns, and some way for the macros to attach semantic information to these roles, so that dev tooling can understand the purpose of each token

STL

Command short-circuiting

Functions for each command type which destructure it and pass it to an Orchid callback

Runtime error handling

result? multipath cps utils? Not sure yet.

Macro error handling

Error tokens with rules to lift them out.

Systems

Async

Join allows to run code when a tuple of pending events all resolve on the event poller

New: Network

Event-driven I/O with single-fire events and resubscription to relay backpressure to the OS. Initially TCP

New: Marshall

Serialization of Orchid data, including code, given customizable sets of serializable foreign items. Alternatively, code reflection so that all this can go in the STL

Miscellaneous

Language server

A very rudimentary language server to visually indicate what the macros do to your code

Type checker

In the distant hopeful future, I'd like to support a type system