ric-script
A modern scripting language; implemented in old school C, yacc & flex (by Ricardicus)
bluebird
A work-in-progess programming language modeled after Ada and C++ (by csb6)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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ric-script
Posts with mentions or reviews of ric-script.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-01.
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July 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Last month I worked on the language ABI (Application Binary Interface). This is where I have made an effort to make modules buildable and exportable (into dynamic shared libraries) to the language interpreter. I call the build environment for these modules the SDK (software development kit). It is a Meson project that supports not just Unix based platforms but also Windows. Before this month, one could only export functions in modules, but now one can include classes also. For me this felt very good, as I would expect of a language to support as much in the SDK as possible of the original script-language data types. Here is a link to an example module library written in C that can be compiled for export into the language interpreter: https://github.com/Ricardicus/ric-script/blob/master/src/sdk_lib/ext_lib.c
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Building my own programming language using C
I host the source code here at GitHub. There are links to documentation and even an environment where you can test the interpreter on some samples to be found in the README. If you feel like this is an interesting C-project I'd appreciate the dopamine kick of a star over there at the github platform.
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January 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Continued work on my interpreter for [ric-script](https://github.com/Ricardicus/ric-script) which is an interpreted dynamically typed and lazy evaluated language. Imagine Javascript without semicolon and Python without the indentation thing. I build the syntax tree using yacc. Here is a [code sample](https://ric-script-u5ep8.ondigitalocean.app/doc/syntaxwalkthrough.html#class-declarations) where I build an RPN calculator in it. I’d appreciate the dopamine kick of a star if you find the project interesting.
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How can I support very big integers?
Thank you all! I have made it work now in my project . A sample script can be found here .
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August 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I continuing with building my first programming language. It is an interpreted dynamically typed and lazy evaluated language. It is like a merge of python and javascript, imagine Python except the focus on indentation. I build the syntax tree using yacc. Here is a code sample where I build an RPN calculator in it. The source repository is here, I’d appreciate the dopamine kick of a star if you like it.
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January 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I am building my first programming language. I call it ric-script. It is an interpreted dynamically typed and lazy evaluated language. It is like a merge of python and javascript. I build the syntax tree using yacc. Here is a code sample where I build an RPN calculator in it.
bluebird
Posts with mentions or reviews of bluebird.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-01.
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Asking for opinions on the best way to specify an exclusive range in a for-loop
0 upto n and 0 thru n. I think I saw it in Bluebird first and really liked it.
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Tips for implementing an AST
Instead of the classic visitor pattern, I found it easier to create a class that basically wraps a big switch statement that switches on an enum representing the kind of expression. You pass it an expression, and based on the enum returned by its kind() function you downcast the expression into the subclass you need. The code is here for reference. My AST code is here.
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January 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I am working some again on my Ada-like language bluebird. I am making another attempt to use MLIR as an intermediate IR between the AST and LLVM IR (I made a brief attempt a few months ago just to look into it).
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September 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I fworked some more towards adding pointers on my Ada-like programming language bluebird. I've finished adding pointer types and variables (as well as the operators for dereferencing/getting the address of objects), but I still need to add the ability to dereference and assign.
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July 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I started to experiment with using MLIR to write a high-level IR for my language bluebird, which will hopefully reduce the work of implementing features I want to add such as generics and ranges, as well as allowing me to eventually write some optimizations. I am also considering rewriting my AST as an MLIR dialect, since MLIR provides a bunch of type-checking/error printing/support infrastructure.
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June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I continued implementing support for references (a restricted form of pointers) in my Ada-like language bluebird. I also am working on adding a cleanup pass between my parser/typechecker to handle stuff like type resolution of literals and constant folding.
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May 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I didn’t add too many new features to my Ada-like language bluebird this month because of lots of projects/school stuff.
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LLVM’s New Pass Manager
Here is a link to my optimizer pass setup for reference. This is just a simple optimization pipeline (I think clang has a setup where optimization stages are re-run multiple times to take advantage of inlining making more optimizations possible).
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March 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I made some more progress on bluebird, my Ada-like language.
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February 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I continued to make progress on the compiler for my Ada-inspired language bluebird. I will have less time to spend on it as classes began earlier last month, but I still hope to continue working on it. Things are getting to the point where adding a new feature isn’t as difficult as it was when doing so often meant writing the supporting code from nothing.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ric-script and bluebird you can also consider the following projects:
kesh - A simple little programming language that could one day compile to JavaScript.
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Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
durin - the Dependent Unboxed higher-oRder Intermediate Notation
m42pl-core - A data manipulation language with a focus on flexibility and simplicity.
Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.
seed7 - Source code of Seed7
The-Spiral-Language - Functional language with intensional polymorphism and first-class staging.
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM