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Rethinking macros. How does a modern macro system looks like?
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MiniLang
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NICUP14 / MiniLang
MiniLang
A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to various platforms.
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6 sourcesMiniLang: A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to C
5 points · Open discussionMiniLang
Link: https://github.com/NICUP14/MiniLang
A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to various platforms.
Motivation:
The language is designed to closely match c features along with some zero-overhead quality of life improvements that you would find in a modern language, while maintaining the ease of learning the language (in about 10 minutes or less via QUICKSTART). Moreover, the type system is stricter than c, which prevents common bugs (flaws) of the c language. Memory safety is also a primary concern. As for c compatibility, the language is bidirectionally compatible with c (c can be used in ML, ML can be used in c).
Design choices:
* Modern
* Compiled
* Procedural
* Strongly typed
* Type and memory safe
* Closely match C features
* Bidirectionally compatible with C
* ML must be easy to learn and use
* ML abstractions in
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troduce zero-overhead compared to C
Goodies:
* Builtins
* Booleans
* References
* Fixed-length integers
* Fixed-length pointers
* Type inference
* Heredocs
* Aliases
* Defers
* Imports
* Namespaces
* Hygienic macros
* Function overloading
* Uniform function call syntax (UFCS)
* Multi-line statements
MiniLang: A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to x86_64 assembly
53 points · Open discussionLink: https://github.com/NICUP14/MiniLang
# Mini Lang
A type-safe C successor that compiles directly to x86\_64 assembly.
## Features
* Minimal
* Compiled
* Typed
* Functional*
* Inter-op with C functions
Minimal - As close as possible to actual assembly code while maintaining as many high-level features as possible.
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