Alan Forshaw

Englewood, Ohio, United States

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Alan Forshaw is a self-taught software engineer with eight years of experience focused on programming language design, tooling, and web-based editors. He has contributed language definitions and integration work to high-profile projects like Microsoft’s Monaco editor and extended core functionality in projects such as Haxe's C++ backend. Alan has been contracted by Replit twice and worked on the Red language and its web runtime Red.js, while independently developing the Star programming language—an active personal project with notable GitHub traction. Based in Englewood, Ohio, he combines deep curiosity about historical language implementations with practical experience across Ace, CodeMirror 6, VSCode and other editors. His non-obvious strength is an eclectic fluency in dozens of languages, which he leverages to rapidly prototype language features and editor integrations.

8 years of coding experience

Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Miami Valley Career Technology Center

Computer Science, Computer Science at Sinclair Community College

Github Skills (17)

editors10

c-language10

haxe10

typescript10

browser10

editor10

monaco-editor10

scala10

regular-expression10

typescript-types10

hashtable10

typescripts10

cprogramming-language10

tcl10

julia10

Programming languages (21)

C#C++CHaxeScalaGoPerlHTML

Github contributions (5)

microsoft/monaco-editor

Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

A browser based code editor

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 5 months

Contributions summary:Alan implemented a Tcl language definition and test files, and a Julia language definition and test files. The user also added the scala language definition and test files. Additionally, the user integrated these new language definitions by updating the monaco.contribution.ts and the test setup.js files. The user is contributing to the expansion of language support in the Monaco editor.

code-editorbrowservscodejavascripteditor

HaxeFoundation/hxcpp

Apr 2021 - May 2021

Runtime files for c++ backend for haxe

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 month

Contributions summary:Alan contributed to the core C++ backend of the haxe compiler, specifically focusing on extending the functionality of regular expressions and hash table implementations. They added new functions for retrieving the number of matched groups and determining hash table sizes. Additionally, the user made code refactoring and cleanup changes, and included hash table updates to use correct member accesses.

cppruntimebackendhaxebuild-tool

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