Vif

Vif is a low-level, data-oriented programming language aimed at game development.

Requirements

• Rust, using the toolchain pinned in rust-toolchain.toml
• LLVM 21.1
• Windows SDK and Visual Studio 2022 Build Tools on Windows

Set LLVM_SYS_211_PREFIX to your LLVM install directory:

export LLVM_SYS_211_PREFIX=/path/to/llvm

On Windows, set the same variable in your environment.

Build

cargo build

Run the compiler with LLVM enabled:

just run -- <args>

Run tests:

just test

License

Vif uses split licensing:

• The compiler and repository files outside std/ are licensed under GPL-3.0-only. See LICENSE.
• The standard library in std/ is licensed under the zlib License. See std/LICENSE.

Unless a file states otherwise, files under std/ use the standard library license and all other files use the compiler license.