The Aument Language

The Aument Language is a work-in-progress, dynamically-typed scripting language that is performant, simple and easy to use. It can be interpreted like Python or compiled into native C code.

(* name comes from the Italian word aumento, meaning growth, augment. It's pronounced /ˈɔː.mənt/.)

Official website

Syntax

An example fibonacci program:

func fib(n) {
    if n <= 1 {
        return n;
    }
    return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2);
}

print fib(28);

See a brief tour for more.

Usage

Once Aument is compiled, you can run a program in interpreter mode with aument run [file]

$ cat hello.au
print "Hello World\n";
$ ./aument run hello.au
Hello World

You can also build the program as an executable with aument build [file] [output]

$ ./aument build hello.au /tmp/hello && /tmp/hello
Hello World

The file libau_runtime.a must be in the same directory as aument. This will be statically linked to your executable.

The build command requires a C compiler in the environment's PATH (default is gcc). If the environment variable CC is specified, it will use that instead.

Building

Requirements

• A C compiler (tested with GCC v9.3.0)
• Meson (tested with 0.53.2)
• Python 3

Linux

In the source directory, run the build.sh script. For debug builds, do:

./build.sh debug

For release builds, do:

./build.sh release

An executable aument will appear in the build directory.

Install

You can use the install.sh script to install aument into /usr/local.

Windows

If your build machine is Windows, install Python and Meson.

Run build-release.bat for release mode or build-debug.bat for debug mode.

For MinGW users, install MinGW tools from Chocolatey:

choco install mingw

Then run one of the build scripts. To clean up the build directory, use clean.bat or remove the build directory.

For Cygwin users, install gcc on Cygwin, open a Cygwin shell in the current directory and follow Linux instructions.

For non-Windows users, If you're cross-compiling for Windows (64-bit), use the command:

./build.sh --cross-win64

Install

You can use the install.bat script to install aument your C:\ drive. This will install the Aument binary, library and the include files into C:\bin, C:\lib and C:\include respectively.

Documentation

• Brief tour
• Command line reference
• Standard library reference
• C API reference
• Writing a C library for Aument (wip)
• Internal architecture

Contributing

This language is in alpha development, so feel free to ask any questions or suggest features in the repository's issues page.

Changelog

This project uses the semver versioning scheme.

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

This implementation of aument is licensed under Apache License v2.0 with Runtime Library Exception. See LICENSE.txt for more details.

Authors

See ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.txt.