🔥 Blaze Programming Language

Blazingly fast

Blaze is a modern programming language that transpiles to Go or can compile to machine code.

• Website at https://blaze.smart.is-a.dev
• Web IDE at https://blaze.smart.is-a.dev/ide

Features

• Simple syntax
• Transpiles to Go
• Built-in std lib
• Interactive web-based IDE
• Debug mode with ? operator
• Command-line compiler

Online IDE

Try Blaze online at https://blaze.smart.is-a.dev/ide

Features:

• Syntax highlighting
• Real-time compilation
• Integrated terminal output
• File management
• Build and transpile options

Installation

From Releases

1. Download the latest release from GitHub Actions Artifacts
2. Add the blaze binary to your PATH

From Source

git clone https://github.com/smartlinuxcoder/blaze.git
cd blaze
go build

CLI Usage

The Blaze compiler provides three main commands:

# Run a Blaze program
blaze run file.blz

# Build a binary
blaze build file.blz

# Transpile to Go
blaze transpile file.blz

Language Basics

Hello World

// A simple hello world program
println("Hello, Blaze!")!

Variables

// Using arrow operator
x <- 42!
// Using let keyword
let name <- "Blaze"!

Control Flow

x <- 42!
if x > 0 [
    println("x is positive")!
] else [
    println("x is not positive")!
]

HTTP Requests

import net/http!
import io!

url <- "https://api.github.com"!
try [
    response <- http::Get(url)!
    body <- io::ReadAll(response.Body)!
    println("Status: " + response.Status)!
    println("Body: " + string(body))!
] catch err [
    println("Error: " + err.Error())!
]

Syntax Highlights

• <- for variable assignment (similar to := in Go)
• ! at the end of each statement
• ? for debug information
• [] for code blocks (instead of {})
• print(), println(), and printf() for output
• let keyword for variable declarations (optional)

Development

The project consists of two main components:

1. CLI Compiler: Written in Go, handles transpilation and execution
2. Web IDE: Built with SolidJS, interactive development environment

Repo Structure

blaze/
├── compiler/        # Compiler
│   ├── main.go
│   └── transpiler.go   
├── website/         # Web IDE
│   ├── src/
│   ├── public/
│   ├── uploads/
│   └── build.sh     # Script to build the website for prod(deprecated)
├── Dockerfile       # Full docker config for the website
└── test.sh          # Checks the compiler functionality

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a PR.

License

GNU GPL V3

Acknowledgments

• The Go team for the goofy language
• The SolidJS team for the goofy framework
• CodeMirror for the goofy editor components

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