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The Kore Programming Language

A pet project for me to learn about programming language implementation.

Features

  • Statically typed
  • Type inference
  • Automatic memory management
  • No nulls, optionals instead
  • Support for different backends

Focus on

  • Developer productivity
  • Batteries included
  • Explicitness
  • Preferably only one way to do something
  • Modularity and code splitting

Code Structure

All code related to the compiler frontend can be found in korec/frontend with all abstract syntax tree code in korec/frontend/ast.

Each compiler backend uses the AST of the parser to generate code for a target (x86, bytecode, etc.) and can be found in korec/backend.

Build

Requirements

$ cmake . -G Ninja
$ ninja

Omit -G Ninja if you are not using ninja.

Currently, a korec binary, which reflects the current state of the frontend, is built and put in bin/ along with a binary for running all tests (found in tests/).

TODO

  • Preliminary language design (see kore.grammar)
  • Scanner
  • Parser
  • Typechecker
  • First compiler backend (bytecode runtime)

Inspiration

  • Python
  • C#
  • Swift
  • Go