https://github.com/refi64/blaze

A low-level, efficient programming language (WORK IN PROGRESS! NOT COMPLETE!)
https://github.com/refi64/blaze

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A low-level, efficient programming language (WORK IN PROGRESS! NOT COMPLETE!)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/refi64/blaze
• Owner: refi64
• License: mpl-2.0
• Created: 2016-04-19T16:53:30.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-10-05T20:55:23.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-16T01:41:23.496Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 301 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
Blaze

=====

Welcome to the source code for Blaze!

What you're seeing here is horribly incomplete. If you don't mind toying with

something that doesn't really work ATM, continue reading.

What is Blaze?

**************

Blaze is my idea for YALLPL (Yet Another Low-Level Programming Language). Even

though there are already a LOT of these, Blaze has some unique ideas that I hope

can help it stand out:

- `Smarter error handling`_.

- An elegant, Python-inspired syntax.

- A Go-inspired module system.

- Assume symbols are public by default (private ones should be prefixed with

  ``_``).

- Fast compile times.

- Support for procedural/data-style structs, OO-style classes, and FP-style

  unions/ADTs.

- Pass everything by reference by default.

- Generics.

Current status

**************

99% of this hasn't been implemented yet, despite the fact that the compiler clocks

in at a whopping >3k LOC. However, you can write really basic programs, and some

more complex control flow structures (like if statements) work.

Structs are present, as is overloading. But a lot of other stuff doesn't work:

- Modules.

- Classes.

- Unions.

- Generics.

- Consistency. (I have no clue why I'm writing this in reStructuredText but wrote

  proto.md in Markdown...)

- Sanity.

Use it at your own risk!

.. _Smarter error handling:

    http://kirbyfan64.github.io/posts/an-idea-for-concise-checked-error-handling-in-imperative-languages.html