https://github.com/lunacookies/minic

https://github.com/lunacookies/minic

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lunacookies/minic
• Owner: lunacookies
• License: other
• Created: 2022-09-12T12:08:05.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-06T22:04:41.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-15T14:37:30.458Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 410 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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###### minic

a tiny c-ish language, hopefully.

###### philosophy

- predictability

- simplicity

- familiarity

- don’t put performance above everything else

- minimize undefined behavior

- optimize for tooling

- lightning fast compilation by replacing LLVM

  with something less aggressive

- generics, if they end up in the language,

  should be very limited

  to avoid [the problem with typeclasses](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/243#issuecomment-916079347)

- reduce the need for a borrow checker

  with runtime memory safety checks

  and a culture of simple ownership semantics

  (pervasive use of arenas)

###### implementation notes

- written in C11 for now

- compiles to aarch64 asm

- currently only works on macOS running on Apple Silicon

- allocates all memory at startup –

  no dynamic memory allocation whatsoever

- resilient to errors in source code

- architected for multithreaded builds,

  though that isn’t necessary at the moment

  since there exist no large codebases

  for which multithreading would be beneficial

- _not_ architected for IDEs;

  that comes later when I implement the ...

- self hosted compiler! (one day)