whack

• A simply-designed compiled programming language.
• Can call C functions without ceremony.
• Suitable for learning some compiler construction basics.
• Also suitable as a base for further development.
• Also suitable for use as-is.
• Whack currently lacks a comprehensively designed type system.
• important Progressively designed/implemented. Some constructs may seem whack.
• No tests (pull requests welcome (follow clang's test style)).
• Currently supporting Windows (I'm on Windows).
• To view current progress, run whack.exe in snapshot folder.
• We're developing executable semantics for the language concurrently, which can be found here.

Progress

Pre-Alpha. This repository is a dump of what is currently on my Sublime Text.

Non-Goals

• Industrial-strength compiler for our Stage 1/Stage 2 compiler.

TODO

• Stage 1 compiler: Compile whack code using using C++ code): (Current progress).
• Use executable semantics to prove its consistency & completeness
• Stage 2 compiler: Use our Stage 1 compiler to compile the Whack compiler in whack.
• Stage 3 compiler: Use our Stage 2 compiler to make a self-hosted Whack compiler.
• Standard Library & Proper documentation and tutorials.

Requirements

Development

• Facebook.Folly (Release folly-2019.03.04.00).
• spdlog (Release spdlog-1.1.0).
• LLVM (Release 6.0.1).
• Running requirements.

Running

• gcc must be available on your PATH (MinGW GCC is available at Nuwen.net).
• LLVM DLL (To be provided in snapshot folder - extract LLVM.dll.rar).
• Command: whack -g whack.grammar main.w