Nolang

Nolang is experimental programming language.

It bases on idea of "pure" programming, where one has no side effects and variables are by default immutable.

Please read pure for more info.

Design rules

No classes (no OOP)
No GC
Automatic memory management, similar to Rust
Develop friendly
Strong types
Immutable by default
No side effects

Reference compiler

This repository contains reference compiler and it's implementation.

General parser has grammar defined in BNF. Compiler generates proper AST, which can be passed to next step. "Next step" here means code generator or interpreter.

Currently only supported and targeted code generator is plain C backend. Thus code is transpiled to C code, and then compiled with any C compiler to native binary.

Other code generator backends may be possible in future.

Building

Get Meson and Ninja.

Clone git repository, cd into it and then:

mkdir build
cd build
meson ..
ninja

To compile single example and run:

../compile.sh ../examples/hello.nolang
./hello.out

To run test suites:

ninja test

To build and run all examples do (currently majority not passing):

../test.sh

Extra dependencies

For development:

cppcheck
- http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/
- sudo apt-get install cppcheck
- run as ninja test or ./checks.sh

License