Kobalt

The versatile language and toolchain for pragmatic programmers.

Warning! The project is in the very early stages of development. Note that most features are either only partially implemented or not implemented at all. What works already?

Getting started

TLDR. You can download alpha version pre-built binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOs on the releases page.

Build from sources

Requirements

a C compiler such as clang, msvc or gcc
premake5 to generate platform-specific project files. You can download the self-contained binary here.

Instructions

Premake can generate project files for GNU make, Visual Studio and more.

To use Makefile, run the following commands.

premake5 gmake2
make -j8 config=release

If you work on Windows, you may prefer to use Microsoft toolchain.

premake5 vs2019
msbuild -m -p:Configuration=release kobalt.sln

The project has two configurations : debug and release. Release is intended for language users. Debug provide additional logging and debugging features for hacking on Kobalt compiler.

Binaries will be generated in bin directory.

Resources

Examples

Showcase programs in Kobalt.

Releases

Last kobalt releases and changelog.

Legal

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.

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