How can I contribute to this project?

[teggotic]

I love idea of this language, but I don't know how to start contributing

[gdotdesign]

Hey there @Danil-Lapirow,

There are a number ways you can contribute:

• use the language - this is the most helpful thing at this stage because we can discover bugs and missing features this way
• documentation and website - the documentation is always needs some work, if you discover that something is not documented or can be improved you can create a PR for it in the websites repository (https://github.com/mint-lang/mint-website-rails)
• language features - if you have any idea about a new language feature, create a detailed issue about it with examples and description (why is it needed? what problems does it solve?)
• code review - the compiler can use a thorough code review because I don't write perfect code, also code reviews for PRs are welcome (@Sija always helps with this 👍)
• standard library - the standard library is incomplete and needs a lot of work:
  • create modules for not implemented Web APIs (or a separate package)
  • Time module needs some rethinking and possibly a rewrite
  • a lot of modules like String, Dom, etc... is missing a lot of features, you can add new functions here (with tests)
• write a package - if you have a feature you use and can be moved into a package it can be good for other developers
• marketing - write blog posts and such to make other people aware of the language
• compiler - there are always a few issues that can be implemented in the compiler

If I can think of something else, I'll update this list.

Let me know if have any questions, we can discuss here or in Gitter (https://gitter.im/mint-lang/Lobby)

[teggotic]

Thank you. It'll be a good idea to post this somewhere. @gdotdesign

[s0kil]

Yes, It will be a good addition somewhere towards the bottom of the README.

[gdotdesign]

I agree that is should be in the README (merged the PR thanks @s0kil) also pinned this issue.

[Namek]

@Danil-Lapirow Some deterministic (to work in a pure functional manner) Random module would be nice to have. Basically seed generation (not pure) and number generation based on the seed/previous seed.