Hello everyone,
Just a small but important update, as of today I have officially started work on the project, and I have chosen to name it EasyCodeIt
There are a handful of reasons why I chose that name:
It reflects one of the important goals, keeping it easy to code
It somewhat makes sense and rhymes with AutoIt
By far, it is the only name which hasn't been used by others (DuckDuckGo shows that no results contain that word)
It is shorter than other potential names while still being meaningful
...there might be other reasons which I cannot recall right now
If I come across a better name, I might change it still, so nothing is set in concrete.
I am licensing the code under GPL (v3), a newer version of the same license under which AutoIt3 used to be under. I don't really have a problem with others forking my code, but I sure do not want the forks to be closed source, that is the reason why I did not choose a 100% free license. Eventually we would need exceptions down the road to allow binary distribution of executable without having to require disclosing their own source code.
My current aim is to build a bare-minimum cross-platform interpreter which can act as a proof-of-concept, and we can build from there
I will release the code publicly once I actually finish something presentable, right now my code is not very different than a simple imitation of command-line tools like cat or type