🎉 Hacktoberfest 2024

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Welcome to Herb.jl

If you're curious and want to learn more about program synthesis and Herb.jl, this video of our 10 minute talk at JuliaCon 2024 is a great introduction.

Here are more resources to get you started with Herb.jl:

• Installation guide
• Getting started
• Contributing guidelines

Good first issues

Herb.jl consists of multiple sub-packages. You can find an overview of the sub-packages with a brief description here.
Most of the repos have some issues tagged as good first issue. You can either look them all to find one you like here or pick an issue from the list below.

Do you have experience with Julia? Or in program synthesis? Maybe you have neither! Don't worry, we have something for everyone 🥳.

Beginner friendly

Tutorials

• Improve Herb.jl tutorials #104
• Fix mermaid diagrams in Abstract Syntax Tree tutorial #105

Tests

There can never be enough tests. See coverage to find parts of Herb.jl that are not yet well-tested. Or pick one from these:

• Improve test coverage HerbSpecification.jl#10

Familiar with Julia

Maybe you're unfamiliar with program synthesis, but your Julia skills are sharp! These issues are for you. They should also provide you with some familiarity of the structures and processes that Herb is built upon, familiarizing you with some basic building blocks of program synthesis.

• Weighted grammars HerbGrammar.jl#90

Tests

• Improve test coverage HerbInterpret.jl#31
• Improve test coverage HerbCore.jl#26

➕ Program synthesis enthusiasts with some Julia experience

If you feel a bit more daring, we also have some more challenging tasks.

Herb.jl is also meant to make common program synthesis benchmarks accessible to everybody and any tool. Help us by formulating cool datasets in our language

• Add DreamCoder benchmarks HerbBenchmarks.jl#19
• Add Advent of Code tasks to benchmarks HerbBenchmarks.jl#59