🗓️Roadmap

Stof Roadmap.

Community

Please open an issue and/or discussion on our GitHub. Our community is early, but very active and inviting.

Hop into the Discord server to see the latest updates, tech discussions, feature requests, and random Stof. This is the best way to get involved.

Contact me at cj@stof dot dev for anything else. Always happy to chat with fellow developers!

🚢 MVP

• DAG & ECS Foundation

• Field Data

• Function Data

• Attribute System

• Async Runtime & Instructions

  • Async functions, blocks, & expressions

• Variable & Field Const

• References & Loop Refs

• Stof Format & Parser (w/native JSON syntax support)

• Prototypes

• Canonical Format API (parse, stringify, & blobify)

• Canonical Library API (extend & control Stof's host access/interface)

• Standard Library & Type Libs (lists, maps, sets, asserts, time, etc.)

• Basic Formats (JSON, YAML, TOML, text, md, bytes, etc.)

• Unit Types (ms, GiB, kg, etc.)

• Basic Language Features (loops, null checks, error handling, etc.)

• Imports

• Data Validate/Invalidate (background diffs & partial updates)

🚀 v1.0.0

• Schema & Schemafy

• Object Run & Standard Pipelines

• Time Library

  • Async Sleep & Std Sleep

  • Now & Diff

  • RFC-2822 & RFC-3339

  • Set Timeout & Intervals

• Image Library w/Basics (flip, brighten, contrast, thumbnail, etc.)

• PDF Library w/Basics (extract text & extract images)

• HTTP Library with async background fetch

• Format Updates

  • Stof Format String Export

  • Optional Binary Export Encryption

  • XML & HTML

• WebAssembly

  • Embed Stof in JS/browser environments

  • WebAssembly native to Stof (lib & types)

• Language Support

  • Go, Python, C, etc. (hop into Discord to discuss)

• Examples

  • Generate Configs & Settings

  • Single Endpoint Server w/Stof API

  • AI workflow & orchestration

  • AI data pre-processing, validation, and tagging

  • Embedded Plugin

  • ETL pipeline w/processing & transform logic

• Web Playground (play.stof.dev)

• Hosted Packages & Manager (pkg.stof.dev)

• Complete Docs & Website

  • Basic Book/Guide for Getting Started

  • Simple Roadmap

  • Tutorial

  • Basic Libraries

  • Basic Formats

  • Sponsorship & Partners

  • Use Case Highlights

    • Scientific Computing

    • Artificial Intelligence

    • Extract-Transform-Load

    • Embedded & Distributed Systems

    • Configuration Management

    • API & Database Systems

💻 CLI

Minimum Viable

• Run (#[main] attribute funcs by default, but customizable)

• Test (#[test] attribute functions)

• Docs MVP (simple version of MD docs)

• Pkg Format (zip file behavior to bundle Stof files)

• Special "stof" directory mapped to "@" in imports

Planned

• Unpack PKG files

• Package Registry & Management

• Remote Execution

• Availability in CI/CD, cloud, etc.