Emojicode

Emojicode is an open source, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language consisting of emojis. It features Object-Orientation, Optionals, Generics and Closures.

🏁 Getting Started

To learn more about the language and get started quickly visit Emojicode’s documentation.

You can easily install Emojicode from our stable prebuilt binaries. See Installing Emojicode for instructions.

🗞 Staying up to date

Follow Emojicode’s Twitter account @Real_Emojicode.

🔨 Building from source

If you need to build Emojicode from source you can of course also do this. We, however, recommend you to install Emojicode from the prebuilt binaries if possible.

Prerequisites:

clang and clang++ 3.4 or newer, or
gcc and g++ 4.9 or newer
GNU Make
Allegro 5 to compile the allegro package
- sudo apt-get install liballegro5-dev on Debian/Ubuntu
- brew install allegro on OS X

Steps:

Clone Emojicode (or download the source code and extract it) and navigate into it:
```
git clone https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode
cd emojicode
```
Beware of, that the master branch contains development code which probably contains bugs. If you want to build the latest stable release make sure to check it out first: git checkout v0.3-beta.2
Then simply run

make

to compile the Engine, the compiler and all default packages.

You may need to use a smaller heap size on older Raspberry Pis. You can specify the heap size in bytes when compiling the engine:

make HEAP_SIZE=128000000

The default heap size is 512MB. It’s also possible to change the default package search path by setting DEFAULT_PACKAGES_DIRECTORY. As for example:

make DEFAULT_PACKAGES_DIRECTORY=/opt/strange/place

You can now either install Emojicode and run the tests:
```
[sudo] make install && make tests
```
or package the binaries for distribution:
```
make dist
```

After the command is done you will find a directory and a tarfile in builds named after your platform, e.g. Emojicode-0.3-beta.2-x86_64-linux-gnu.

📝 Contributions

Want to improve something? Great! First of all, please be nice and helpful. You can help in lots of ways, like reporting bugs, fixing bugs, improving the documentation, suggesting new features, or implementing new features.

Whatever you want to do, please look for an existing issue or create a new one to discuss your plans briefly.

📃 License

Emojicode is licensed under the Artistic License 2.0. If you don’t want to read the whole license, here’s a summary without legal force: