Cherri – programming language that compiles directly to a Apple Shortuct

Summary

Cherri (pronounced cherry) is a Shortcuts programming language that compiles directly to a valid runnable Shortcut. The primary goal is to make it practical to create large Shortcut projects (within the limitations of Shortcuts) and maintain them long term. 🖥️ Laptop/Desktop-based development (CLI, VSCode extension, macOS app) 🎓 Easy to learn and syntax similar to other languages 🐞 1-1 translation to Shortcut actions as much as possible to make debugging easier 🥾 Half-bootstrapped: Most actions and types are written in the language 💻 Import actions on your Mac 📦 Package manager: Remote Git repo-based package manager built in, allowing for automatic inclusion and updates. 🪄 No magic variables syntax, they're constants instead 🪶 Optimized to create as small as possible Shortcuts and reduce memory usage at runtime #️⃣ Include files within others for large Shortcut projects 🔧 Define actions with type checking, enums, optionals, default values, raw identifiers, and raw keys. 🔄 Define functions to run within their own scope at the top of your Shortcut to reduce duplicate actions. 📋 Copy-paste actions automatically 🥩 Enter action identifier and parameters manually using Raw Actions. ❓ Define import questions 📇 Generate VCards for menus 📄 Embed files in base64 🔀 Convert Shortcuts from an iCloud link with the --import= option 🔢 Type system and type inference 🔏 Signs using macOS, falls back on HubSign or another server that uses scaxyz/shortcut-signing-server. You can install Cherri by downloading the latest release or via the Homebrew or Nix package managers: If you have Homebrew installed, you can run: Add Tap: brew tap electrikmilk/cherri Install: brew install electrikmilk/cherri/cherri If you have Nix installed, you can run: nix profile install github:electrikmilk/cherri Alternatively, you can use nix-direnv to get an isolated, effortless dev environment where cherri is available based on which directory you're in. Then you would use_flake and add Cherri to flake.nix: { i...