LessLang 0.2

Project State

The project is in an early stage and is not ready for practical usage.

What's ready

Runtime

The runtime is almost ready. Objects and types work as expected, operators work and objects can be invoked as well.
In the runtime is also present a Garbage Collector. I also expect to implement a cache for objects, in order to ease the weight on both processor and RAM.
Math expressions are addressed in the Statement Parser.

Statement Parser

The statement parser is currently undergoing thinking process and is being structured.
It will support variable, function and type declarations as well as math expressions and operations between constants.

Division

The project is divided into three main sections:

Section	Working Status
Runtime	📍 Milestone 2
Statement Parser	⚒️ Work in Progress
Parser	⌚ Planned

How to build

Unix systems (Linux/macOS)

This is currently the only options to try out the runtime.
First install these dependencies:

Dependency	Required	Link
build-essentials	YES
gcc, g++ compilers	YES
VS Code	NO	here
make	YES
git	NO

Next, build one of the tests as follows: make tests/<test name>
For instance, consider the test named "union" under tests/union.cpp, I'd run it like this: make tests/union and that's it

Code Samples

Here are some code samples I've been desingin for a while now:

Hello World!

message: string = "Hello, World!";
main(args: [string]): void {
  sys.println("message:", message);
}

The output to this code should be:
message: Hello, World!

Module

import

-> console;
main(args: [string]): void {
  console.writeln("Hello!");
}

The -> symbol works as an import keyword

export

<- test;
^fn(): string {
  return "Hello!";
}
^variable: Const<integer> = 5;

The symbol <- is used to declare the export name of a certain module.
The prefix ^ exports the related object.

Contributing

Please feel free to report issues and post PRs if anything looks off to you, and don't hesitate contacting me if you want to contribute to the project at any time.