Instruct

A language to write general purpose 'makefile like' tasks which are powerful and reuseable.

Status

This project is somewhat working!

• Parsing
  • []
• Static analysis
• Interpreter
• [/] Task project definition and config files
• [] Dependency system
• [] Runner system
  • cmd's
  • [] ssh
  • [] docker
  • [] python
• [] Testing system

Goals

My goal for this project is to provide an alternative to makefiles / bash scripts, especially for the devops world.
Most of the time automation code is simply dumped into a few bash scripts or directly into pipeline config files, which makes them hard to maintain / reuse.

Therefor this language thrives to provide following goals:

• Clean syntax that is easy to read and understand
• Reuseability of tasks
• Simple package / dependency system
• Native support for multiple executors:
  • Simple shell
  • Docker
  • Python

Example

A currently fully working small example.

module as variables;

collection as interpolate: {
    let (final_stdout: stdout) from task as stdout: {
        let (pre_var: var) from block as pre: {
            let (var: stdout) from run with (trim_stdout): echo pre;
            run: echo dyn_${var};
        };
        let (stdout) from run with (trim_stdout) as main: echo interpolated '${pre_var}' used in main;
        block as post: {
            let (stdout) from run with (stdin: stdout): sed s/main/post/g;
            run: echo ${stdout};
        };
    };

    task as call: {
        let (final_stdout) from call as main: variables.interpolate.stdout;
        run as post: echo ${final_stdout} used after call;
    };

    task as exit-code: {
        let (status1: status) from run as pre: cat Cargo.toml;
        let (status2: status) from run as main: cat random_file.json;
        run as post: echo "cat Cargo.toml: $${status1}, cat random_file.json: $${status2}";
    };
};

It can be executed using cargo:

cargo run variables.interpolate.stdout
cargo run variables.interpolate.exit-code