Piru

(Formerly Silverquill)

A compiler for a simple, strongly-typed, (potentially) C-like language with (probably?) manual memory management targetting a simple... something-based virtual machine.

Note: Work on Piru is currently (mostly) paused while I figure out what I actually want from this language. See work in this compiler project (mostly research now which may or may not end up in the issue tracker/README).

Additionally, either the runtime or the entire toolchain might end up being rewritten in Zig. Although I prefer Rust's type system, its semantics, usage patterns, and best practices--namely the borrow checker--don't align themselves well with writing a language runtime or virtual machine, where expressing behavior that might result in the exact type of error that the compiler bends over backwards to avoid might well be intended behavior.

Planned Reserved Keywords

• TRUE, FALSE, NULL
• [Data Types]
  • u8, i8
  • u16, i16, f16
  • u32, i32, f32
  • u64, i64, f64
  • char, string, bool
• fn, lambda
• struct
  • Maybe has functions and v-tables?
  • no inheritance 🤮
• control flow
  • if, else
  • for, while
  • return
• error handling
  • try, catch
    • Maybe errors as values instead
  • assert

might have the following reserved keywords:

• typedef
• class
• vector
• enum