https://github.com/TheRealMichaelWang/NoHoPython

A strongly-typed, compiled dialect of Python.
https://github.com/TheRealMichaelWang/NoHoPython

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A strongly-typed, compiled dialect of Python.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/TheRealMichaelWang/NoHoPython
• Owner: TheRealMichaelWang
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-08-25T01:32:48.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-28T23:31:00.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-04T02:56:20.568Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 1.77 MB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# The North-Hollywood Python Compiler

A strongly-typed, memory-safe, compiled dialect of Python, that transpiles to human-readable C.

- Guarentees memory saftey by enforcing RAII, and executing limited reference counting for closure-captured classes

  - Unlike rust, NoHoPython reference counting - which is only used for capturing classes for closures - guarentees no memory leaks. 

- Guarentees type saftey via a strong yet flexible static type-checker

  - No null. Enums/Variants are used instead. 

  - Enum/Variant match statements must be exhaustive.

- Supports first-class, anonymous functions

  - Functions can be passed around as values

  - Supports closures, which are functions that can capture variables outside of it's lexical scope

  - No globals. Functions only can mutate arguments, and captured classes in addition to it's locally defined varaibles.

- Code organized via a powerful module system

  - No C++-esque `using namespace`'s(prevents pollution of the global namespace)

- Runtime Saftey

  - Array access' are all bounds checked.

  - No Undefined Behavior, despite targeting C

    - Sequence of evaluation is guarenteed

- Easy C interop

  - Effortless FFI interop with C, via the `cdef` keyword. 

  - Include C headers with the `cinclude` keyword

- Information-Rich Error-Reporting

  - Clean, precise error messages during compile time

  - Runtime errors, such as assertion faliures or index-out-of-bounds errors, are reported with their locations in the source code.

  - Reports informative, pythonic stack traces (not only for user-defined, NHP functions but also for calls to foreign C functions)

  - Built-in memory debugging that can report memory leaks