Welcome to the source code for Blaze!
What you're seeing here is horribly incomplete. If you don't mind toying with something that doesn't really work ATM, continue reading.
Blaze is my idea for YALLPL (Yet Another Low-Level Programming Language). Even though there are already a LOT of these, Blaze has some unique ideas that I hope can help it stand out:
- Smarter error handling.
- An elegant, Python-inspired syntax.
- A Go-inspired module system.
- Assume symbols are public by default (private ones should be prefixed with
_). - Fast compile times.
- Support for procedural/data-style structs, OO-style classes, and FP-style unions/ADTs.
- Pass everything by reference by default.
- Generics.
99% of this hasn't been implemented yet, despite the fact that the compiler clocks in at a whopping >3k LOC. However, you can write really basic programs, and some more complex control flow structures (like if statements) work.
Structs are present, as is overloading. But a lot of other stuff doesn't work:
- Modules.
- Classes.
- Unions.
- Generics.
- Consistency. (I have no clue why I'm writing this in reStructuredText but wrote proto.md in Markdown...)
- Sanity.
Use it at your own risk!