Caterpillar

My long-term vision for Caterpillar is to make it statically typed, and provide custom tooling that shows you precisely what your code is doing. Both should help you notice and prevent all kinds of mistakes.

Over the last few days, I've been talking about how Caterpillar deals with function arguments, and how the local operand stack works. These things are somewhat limited in Caterpillar, compared to stack-based languages, to make them less error-prone.

Maybe, once static typing and better tooling are available, those limitations are no longer needed, and Caterpillar can become closer to a stack-based language. We'll see; nothing is final. For now, the current design makes the most sense, as best I can tell.