Queen’s Roadmap

Here’s the roadmap for Queen’s initial release:

2019-2020: conception, naming, initial grammar. ANTLR4, AST and Language Engineering analysis;
2021: first PoC ANTLR4 parser implemented and tested;
2022: Registered the Queenlang trademark in Europe;
2023, January: Grammar; Implemented the ANTLR4 parser, AST visitor and the Java parsing using JavaParser;
2023, February: The first PoC is running! The very first Queen “Hello World!” was executed on 19.02.2023!

First Hello World

2023, August: CLI Transpiler MVP (version 0.0.1) has been released! More details here.
2026, July: We released many improvements to the CLI transpiler (version 0.1.0). In particular, queenc can now transpile an entire project and can also generate a Queen-compliant Maven starter project. More details here.

Second Hello World

2026: A few other releases are expected, with improvements for Maven support.
2028: Possibly start implementing our own QDK, to replace the JDK;