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https://github.com/daniele-rapagnani/melon
The Melon programming language
https://github.com/daniele-rapagnani/melon
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The Melon programming language
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/daniele-rapagnani/melon
- Owner: daniele-rapagnani
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-08-04T16:39:30.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: develop
- Last Pushed: 2022-11-10T13:14:11.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-04-19T06:51:40.318Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Topics: bytecode, embeddable-scripting-language, game-development, hacktoberfest, interpreter, language, lua, melon, programming-language, scripting-language, wren
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://daniele-rapagnani.github.io/melon/
- Size: 1.83 MB
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 22
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# Melon is a small and modern programming language
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#### What's Melon?
Melon attempts to combine the best features of popular high-level languages in something that feels modern but is still small and light enough to be easy to embed in your project.
It's inspired mainly by ES6 JavaScript, Lua, Wren, Python and Ruby.
It looks like this:
```javascript
let Language = {
create = |name| => {
return { name = name } @ Language;
},
getName = -> {
return this.name;
}
};
let Melon = {
create = => {
return { } @ Melon;
},
helloWorld = -> {
io.print("Hello world " .. this->getName() .. "!");
}
} @ Language.create("Melon");
let melon = Melon.create();
melon->helloWorld();
```
# Features
* A simple but functional **module system**
* Good for **soft realtime** applications such as games: it sports an **incremental generational GC**
* Native **integer** and **array** types allow for faster code
* Support for **bytecode** generation, you don't need to distribute your source files
* Full support for **operator overloading** using **ES6-style symbols**
* **Prototype based**: doesn't enforce the OOP paradigm while still making it possible
* **Dynamic typing** without implicit conversions: lower chance of unintended behaviour
* Entirely written in **C**, the number of dependencies can be counted on one hand
* Extensive **unit tests** for both the VM and language
# Where to start
Melon is very young and there's still no documentation available.
At the moment you can get a taste for the language by browsing the [unit tests][ut].
# Platforms
Melon supports the following platforms:
* macOS
* Linux (32/64bit)
* Windows (MinGW-w64, 32/64bit)
* Emscripten
# Compiling
Melon uses CMake so you can use the standard way of building CMake projects:
```sh
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
```
## Emscripten
Just run CMake with `emcmake` and you are good to go:
```sh
mkdir build && cd build
emcmake cmake ..
make
```
## MinGW
In order to link Melon and its binaries with MinGW-w64 you'll need the **lld** linker.
You can install it on MSYS2 with: `pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-lld` or `pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-lld` depending on your architecture.
# Disclaimer
Melon is still in **alpha** and it's certainly not ready for production!
In the unlikely event that you are considering it for your project, please keep in mind that development is very active and nothing is written in stone at the moment.
[ut]: https://github.com/daniele-rapagnani/melon/tree/develop/tests/fixtures/vm/language