NI

aka Nova Installer or Nova Interpreter if you're using it for purposes aside from installing Nova.

Status

• Can now do basic interpretation
• Can now do basic file "sync" mode
• TODO: Add January macro syntax support
• TODO: Add FFI modules

Plans

Coarse-level

• Use a cleaned up version of January syntax
• Hoping to be able to generate FFI stubs at compile time from module metadata or docs rather than having to custom-write all of them

Fine-level

ni will need to be able to:

Download Nova Implementations

Download either of:

• Source Code Repos
• Binary Releases

Check requirements for a given implementation

Check requirements for an existing implementation, including the version(s) of any dependcies

Installing those dependencies will be out of scope, at least for a -long- time. There's -too- much complexity there.

Set up shells profiles

For each of at least:

• Linux
• Windows
• macOS

and:

• bash
• zsh
• pwsh
• cmd

Provide best-effort ways for configuring a given Nova implementation to be runnable from a command line, both via in-place shell customization, and by creating or modifying existing shell profile files.