Carp

WARNING! This is a research project and a lot of information here might become outdated and misleading without any explanation. Don't use it for anything important just yet!

Update (June 12, 2018): We're currently working towards version 0.3.0 of the language. The goal of this version is to be a stable but somewhat limited version of the language (lacking union types).

A conference talk about Carp was recorded and the video can be seen here.

About

Carp is a small programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations.

The key features of Carp are the following:

Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM)
Inferred static types for great speed and reliability
Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood
No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit
Straightforward integration with existing C code

Learn more

Installation - how to build and configure the Carp compiler
The Compiler Manual - how to compile code and configure your projects
Carp Language Guide - syntax and semantics of the language
Libraries - how to work with libraries and modules
Tooling - supported editors
Game Example - a Snake clone in Carp

The Carp REPL has built-in documentation, run (help) to access it!

A Very Small Example

(load-and-use SDL)

(defn tick [state]
  (+ state 10))

(defn draw [app rend state]
  (bg rend &(rgb (/ @state 2) (/ @state 3) (/ @state 4))))

(defn main []
  (let [app (SDLApp.create "The Minimalistic Color Generator" 400 300)
        state 0]
    (SDLApp.run-with-callbacks &app SDLApp.quit-on-esc tick draw state)))

To build this example, save it to a file called 'example.carp' and load it with (load "example.carp"), then execute (build) to build an executable, and (run) to start.

Language Designer & Lead Developer

Erik Svedäng (@e_svedang)

Core Contributor

Veit Heller (@hellerve)

Contributors

Markus Gustavsson
Fyodor Shchukin
Anes Lihovac
Chris Hall
Tom Smeding
Dan Connolly
Reini Urban
Jonas Granquist

Are you missing from the contributors list? Please send a pull request!

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

The regular expression implementation as found in src/carp_regex.h are Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio under the terms of the MIT license. Details can be found in the License file LUA_LICENSE.

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