https://github.com/spaghettifunk/alaska

A mix between Go and Rust to reach the sweet spot with LLVM as backend
https://github.com/spaghettifunk/alaska

go llvm programming-language rust

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A mix between Go and Rust to reach the sweet spot with LLVM as backend

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/spaghettifunk/alaska
• Owner: spaghettifunk
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-05-31T13:31:54.000Z (6 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-25T18:55:00.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-02T07:42:33.853Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: go, llvm, programming-language, rust
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 238 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Alaska language

This is the Alaska programming language written in C. Alaska is a combination of `Go` and `Rust`.

To run the binary, do `make run input=compiler/tests/test.ask`. If you want to add Debug information, add the `debug=1` on the end of the previous command.

## Why another language?

Because it is fun and I always wanted to make one myself. Last time I did this was at University and it was a subset of `C`.

## Goals

The goals of Alaska are:

- [ ] To be used in the data world with strong typing but easy learning curve

- [ ] Designed to use multiple threads with ease

- [ ] ...

## TODO

Here is a list of features that I'd like to implement in the language:

- [ ] Implement better Parsing error message to user

- [ ] Use LLVM as backend for multiple architectures

- [ ] Implement arenas for memory pool

- [ ] Implement the `match` like Rust does

- [ ] Implement `spawn` similar to `go`

- [ ] Implement `as` for type casting

- [ ] Implement `&` and `*` for dereference and pointers

- [ ] Garbage collection

- [ ] Decorators using `@` like Python

- [ ] Implement `modules`, `packages`, `registry`, etc for both internal/external dependencies

- [ ] Implement Language Server for IDE

- [ ] Implement multiple return types for functions

- [ ] Implement `Generics` in the type system (already able to parse them)

- [ ] ....and more