It should also work on zsh, bash, fish, and every other conceivable shell. After creating the bin folder, it updates the relevant shell config file, and sources it.

Now, as per @j23414.bsky.social suggestion, the #morloc installer asks permission before altering paths and places them in the ~/.morloc/bin directory.

Thanks all! Lots of good feedback on the install scripts. One being, why use containers at all? For now I'll fix my script. Hopefully next time we can do less installation and more programming. Long-term, I need to ship binaries and add Morloc to all the package managers.

Thanks everyone for joining! Main takeaways: new install manager seems to be working, I need to update #morloc on #hackage (I'm about 5 years out of date), and #vlang looks like a good thing.

We might changes times for next Saturday meeting, I'll keep you posted.

Now, the downside is that after finally getting this grammar working I find that I can't PR to GitHub linguistic, the requirement for GitHub syntax highlighting, until I have 200+ repos using #morloc code. So ... back to community building.

To update, Tree-sitter grammar is now fully working. All code in the #morloc test suite passes the grammar without error.

Feast your eyes on this colorful code and sexy tree:

The Morloc code for this is as follows:

You might notice there is a mysterious "comment" node at the end ... that's not supposed to be there 😒

/ 👏 Special shoutouts:

Sanket Wagle and Sriram Vijendran: for nix-shell packaging & #WASM ideas

Jennifer Chang, Scott Chamberlain, Arun Seetharam, Paul Scheid, and Jon Sundin: for testing installation and vetting examples

Andrew Wilkey for creating a Morloc syntax-highlighting Discord bot

I'm sharing a pre-release of the paper. The official paper is in its second round of peer-review and should be public in a few months. Additional links:

GitHub: github.com/morloc-proje...
Discord: discord.gg/bR3h4hyB
Docs: morloc-project.github.io/docs/