I have a Linux system. I want to create a version of JavaScript with French keywords and stuff. I don’t want to modify JavaScript itself, but only have synonyms for keywords in French that when compiled to JS, replace into the English version. I don’t want to use a parser/lexer because that’s too complicated for what I’m doing.

I will show you an example of what my code could do:

var message = "Salut, StackExchange!"

fonction bonjourMonde() {
    dire(message);
}

pour (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    si (i % 2 == 0) dire(`${i}: even`);
    sinon dire(i + ': odd');
}

That code would compile to this:

var message = "Salut, StackExchange!"

function bonjourMonde() {
    console.log(message);
}

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    if (i % 2 == 0) console.log(`${i}: even`);
    else console.log(i + ': odd');
}

As you can see, fonction leads to function, pour = for, si=if, sinon=else, dire=console.log.

Any way I could do this? I’m thinking it would probably be a bash or a makefile compiling it to JS, then running the compiled JS with node. But I’m not sure how to do that.