xPython provides a python-like syntax and converters to any language.
It's implementation of an "ideal language" that has nice syntax and almost all things that we love in other programming languages.
Idea is to define a syntax with static typing, but with late type binding. Syntax that very similar to Python, but at the same time allows to avoid some problems of the language (like accessing private and protected properties of the class, check data types of variables, define static variables). At the end - we can convert the program to any other language (Swift, Go, Python, JavaScript and Java), that allows to write the same codebase and use different backends to run the resulting code.
Compiler - program that transforms our source code to a code on another programming language. See wikipedia
Parser - parses our source code to a special structure, that later used by Code Generator.
Code Generator - extension that allows to convert program to a selected programming language. Each code generator rely on it's own syntax and implementation, but uses the same parsed code.
Read full documentation about the xPython in the docs/ folder.
It's very basic description of the xPython syntax. You can find it very similar to Python language.
import math.operations as math_operations
class Math
val = 0
default_op is Char or None # Optional one-character value
def init(val is Int)
this.val = val
def add(inc is Int) -> Int
return math_operations.do_operation('+', this.val, inc)
def calc(inc is Int, op is Char) -> Int
return math_operations.do_operation(op, this.val, y)
# All parameters are passed with specifying their names
math = Math(val = 10)
math.add(inc = 20)
print(out = math.val) # prints: 30
math.calc(inc = 2, op = '*')This still in pre-alpha stage.
# Install it
pip install xpython
# Compile a file
xpython compile --language=python script.xpy
# Or compile all files in the given folder
xpython compile --language=js project/