A long long time ago I tried to make a programming language called Teal. It was basically just a lot of input.replace(/some_regular_expression/, 'something_else') type things that turned "Teal" into JavaScript.

Turquoise is kind of just a different evolution of that. It's a "scripting" language (as in it aims to be easy to write) that can compile to JavaScript or Rust (and by extension a native executable). It's a little more rigourous that just hap-hazard text transforms, and actually does the whole "lexing" and "AST" thing that's so popular these days.

// main.q
fn main() {
  println("Hello sailor!");
}

take run