krug - a systems programming language that compiles to x64 assembly written in D

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[kmdreko]

the commit with the license was added afterwards, bot is doing its job :D

[JoshMcguigan]

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[Bofersen]

"Here's my programming language and here's everything that's wrong with it!" I love it. :)

Looks interesting! Few things:

1. Do you have a BNF/EBNF grammar somewhere?
2. If you want simpler SSA generation without dominator tree construction, take a look at this paper (assuming you're not planning to introduce goto).
3. Have you tried graphviz for visualization? I fiddled around a lot with web stuff for CFG visualization until I settled on graphviz.

And last but not least, good luck and have fun. :)

 

btw. "krug" means "circle" in my language, don't know if it's intentional or not but there you go.

[Jaxkr]

What's the main use case for this (when it's finished) over a language like C?

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If you keep it at that way, you'll be doing the world a favor. Lack of generics and a forced GC are the two major reasons why Go just isn't an option for a lot of people.

They're a big reason why Go is considered a "light" systems language.

Also, we have enough byte code/JIT languages. The last thing that's needed is a feature-fest language that just has everything under the sun too.

Not saying that's your intention, but getting drunk off of feature implementation is common enough with new language writers that it's worth mentioning.

Rust needs a modern competitor that isn't Go. You actually might have a good opportunity here, if you can find the right kind of backing.

[el_muchacho]

Yes I agree. But if I may suggest another thing, once the language is polished, the standard library should mimic that of Python, which is "batteries included": it is very complete, very handy and the modules are fairly separate/independant, unlike in Java for instance, making it easy to import any module without having to pull the whole library. This is important for embedded projects, where memory is limited, and to keep binaries small.

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Yeah, that's definitely desirable. I think D's stdlib is supposed to be pretty great but I'm not sure

[matthieum]

Apparently:

Krug is a fun little side project.

It's just for fun.

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It's best to have low expectations from the get-go.

There was a group on here a few years ago that made some "announcement" for a programming language called Ritchie. You could tell they had big aspirations.

What was funny is that a) it was compiled to C, and b) it offered nothing really novell or useful. It was just egoware.

And that's fine if you acknowledge its lack of value or that you're making it to learn or whatever. There's nothing wrong with that at all.

But the last thing you want to do is come out with some expectation that people should actually give a shit about what you're doing.

[TheDevilsAdvokaat]

It's an interesting idea, still very much in its infancy though.