Last time, in Neander: An Agent-First Programming Language, I published the language but not the one thing a host actually needs in order to put it to work: a runtime reference implementation. I promised it already existed, and that I would show it next time.
Here it is.
It's called Grotto. The naming keeps the theme going: the first Neanderthal fossil was pulled from a grotto — the place "where the Neanderthal lived." Grotto is where Neander programs live and run.
A specification is a plan. A reference implementation is the proof that the plan can be put into action. Grotto is that proof: an embeddable TypeScript library, running on Node.js, that takes a Neander program as plain text and runs it — the whole language, end to end, every expression, every data type and every built-in function the spec defines.
The trusted component
