Pepper3 is a ficticious programming language designed for general programming. Its main features are:

• Simple, Python-like code, but with strong, expressive typing.
• Compilation and packaging for native and other platforms.
• Metaprogramming and dependent types inspired by Lisp.

I describe it as "ficticious" because at the moment it is a collection of ideas, with some implementations, but is nowhere near a working language.

Some ideas:

• Strong typing and type inference
• Late-binding interfaces - strongly-typed highly generic code
• Python-like string handling
• Compilation to native and also platforms like the JVM and JavaScript
• Full build, link and OS packaging as part of the language
• Code in other languages can be included inline
• Your code can run at compile time - metaprogramming is just programming
• Functional purity when you want it
• Memory management through object ownership, not garbage collection
• Types like "int" and "string" can be swapped at compile time

• command_line - how to run the pepper3 program
• todo - current plans
• lexing - internals of how the lexer works