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JexCompiler

A compiler for the simple programming language that I've been working on.

I wanted to learn about compilers and ended up reading Crafting Interpreters and writing this compiler and a virtual machine.

It supports

  • ints, booleans
  • strings
  • addition, multiplication, division, subtraction, concatenation
  • logical operations
  • local and global variables
  • if, if-else, while loops
  • functions
  • build-in functions: input, readLine, int, fact
  • objects and object() function
  • linked lists with normal API
  • closures

How to run Jex

To run Jex code you need to run

  1. Download JexCompiler-<version>.jar from the latest release
  2. Run
java -jar JexCompiler-<version>.jar path/to/code.txt path/to/output.bytecode
  1. Run path/to/output.bytecode with jex_vm.

Examples

WARNING: Be very careful with newline characters, the parser is not finished yet 😎.

Ints, booleans, strings

1 + 2 * 5 - (10 / 2);
true && false;
true || false;
"a" + "b";

Variables

var globalVariable = 1;
{
  var localVariable = 2; 
}

Read and write

var readFromTerminal = readLine();
println("Hello World");

var readInt = int(readLine());

if (readInt == null) {
    println("Failed to parse int");
} else {
    println("Success");
}

Ifs and whiles

var name = readLine();
if (name == "Emir") {
    println("Hehe");
} else {
    println("Hey");
}

if (name == "emir") {
    println("You should capitalize your name, emir");
}
while(true) {
    println("Working");
}

Functions

fn greet(name) {
    println("Hello, " + name);
}

println("Whats your name?");
greet(readLine());

Functions are just regular values

var a = println;
println(a);

Objects

Firstly, you have to create an empty object and then add some properties.

var person = object();
person.name = "Emir";

println(person.name);

Linked list example.

You can find some examples of Jex code in the resources directory.