How to Contribute

How to Contribute

The world needs a language that is easy, fast, and safe, and with your help, we can make it happen!

If you'd like to join us and contribute, post in the r/Vale subreddit or come by the Vale discord!

Any contributions are welcome, and if you're looking for some ideas, here's some interesting things Vale needs!

Projects involving writing Vale code:

• Add to the Vale standard library! (sets, hash maps, lists, futures, etc.)
• Implement Vale programs for benchmarking (k-nucleotide, mandelbrot, etc.)

Compiler projects (not requiring in-depth knowledge of the Vale compiler):

• A new parser, to replace our current combinator-based one!
• Implement the bump allocator for bump calling!
• VIR-to-Swift, VIR-to-JVM, or VIR-to-JS cross-compilers, to run Vale on iOS/JVM/Web!
• Compile-time ref-counting!

Tooling projects:

• Syntax highlighters! (VSCode, Sublime, Vim, Emacs, etc)
• Linters!
• Auto-formatters!

Language design projects:

• Region borrow checker
• Concurrency strategy (green threads vs async/await, etc)
• Metaprogramming functions and constructs

If you'd like to join us and contribute, post in the r/Vale subreddit or come by the Vale discord!