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The ARF programming language.
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This is still under development and does not compile things yet. Once complete,
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it will serve as a temporary compiler that will be used to write a new one using
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the language itself.
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The old repository can be found [here](https://github.com/sashakoshka/arf-old).
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ARF is a low level language with a focus on organization, modularization, and
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code clarity. Behind it's avant-garde syntax, its basically just a more refined
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version of C.
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A directory of ARF files is called a module, and modules will compile to object
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files (one per module) using C as an intermediate language (maybe LLVM IR in the
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future).
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## Design aspects
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These are some design goals that I have followed/am following:
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- The standard library will be fully optional, and decoupled from the language
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- The language itself must be extremely simple
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- Language features must be immutable (no reflection or operator overloading)
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- Prefer static over dynamic
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- Data must be immutable by default
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- Memory not on the stack must be allocated and freed manually
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- Language syntax must have zero ambiguity
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- The compiler should not generate new functions or complex logic that the user
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has not written
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- One line at a time - the language's syntax should encourage writing code that
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flows vertically and not horizontally, with minimal nesting
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## Planned features
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- Type definition through inheritence
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- Struct member functions
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- Go-style interfaces
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- Generics
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- A standard library (that can be dynamically linked)
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## Checklist
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- [X] File reader
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- [X] File -> tokens
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- [ ] Tokens -> syntax tree
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- [ ] Syntax tree -> semantic tree
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- [ ] Semantic tree -> C -> object file
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- [ ] Figure out HOW to implement generics
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- [ ] Create a standard library
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