Mini Lang

A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to x86_64 assembly.

Warning

The language is still under development. Some features are missing.

Check out acwj-git, DoctorWkt's tutorial is the main (best) source of inspiration of this project's structure.

Branches

• main
• unstable

Warning

The unstable branch is updated more often than the main (stable) branch and offers access to experimental features, but is more prone to breakage/bugs.

Features

• Minimal
• Compiled
• Typed
• Functional
• Hygienic macro system
• C function interoperability

Minimal - As close as possible to actual assembly code while maintaining as many high-level features as possible.

Links

Important

The language documentation is provided at QuickStart.

• Ideas
• Bug list
• TODO list
• License
• QuickStart

To suggest features/fixes, modify IDEAS.md/BUG.md and submit a pull request or contact me via the email address in my github profile.

Syntax highlighter (VSCode)

Install the VSIX extension ./minilang-highlighter/minilang-highlighter-0.0.1.vsix.

Extensions -> Views and more actions... (top-left three dots) -> Install from VSIX...

Code statistics

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File                             blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
src/Parser.py                      251             46            981
src/Def.py                         210             56            738
src/Gen.py                         189             66            649
src/Lexer.py                        43              0            296
src/GenStr.py                       17              1            130
src/Snippet.py                      38              0            106
src/Main.py                          9              0             45
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                               757            169           2945
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note

Statistics were generated with cloc.

Usage

Usage: Main.py [options]

The mini language compiler, Version: 1.0.0, Source:
https://github.com/NICUP14/MiniLang.git

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT, --input=INPUT
                        Read contents from INPUT.
  -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
                        Write contents to OUTPUT; When set, no-color is
                        enabled by default.
  -d, --debug           Dry run; Print the human-friendly AST representation.
  -c, --no-color        Do not use ANSI color sequences in the output.
  -C, --no-comment      Do not include human-readable comments in the
                        generated assembly.

Samples

• HelloWorld
• Fib
• FizzBuzz
• Printf

Note

All MiniLang samples (example projects) are located within the samples directory. All samples are written entirely in ML.

Note

The printf sample is currently broken due to a type system update.

Hello World

# From samples/helloworld.ml:
import "../../stdlib/cstdlib"

fun main: int64
    puts "Hello World!"
    ret 0
end
end

License

Copyright © 2023 Nicolae Petri

Licensed under the MIT License.