cli/q

🌱 A simple programming language. 34 Commits

Eduard Urbach 2d990b0bee Added support for single file builds		2024-06-12 12:10:29 +02:00
examples/hello	Updated dependencies	2024-06-11 15:49:27 +02:00
src	Added support for single file builds	2024-06-12 12:10:29 +02:00
.gitignore	Initial commit	2023-10-17 11:06:14 +02:00
go.mod	Updated dependencies	2024-06-11 15:49:27 +02:00
go.sum	Updated dependencies	2024-06-11 15:49:27 +02:00
main.go	Improved project structure	2023-10-20 17:07:44 +02:00
README.md	Improved documentation	2024-06-02 15:20:05 +02:00

q

A simple programming language.

Features

Fast compilation
Small binaries

Installation

git clone https://git.akyoto.dev/cli/q
cd q
go build

Usage

Build a Linux ELF executable from examples/hello:

./q build examples/hello
./examples/hello/hello

Documentation

main.go

Entry point. It simply calls cli.Main which we can use for testing.

src/cli/Main.go

The command line interface expects a command like build as the first argument. Commands are implemented as functions in the src/cli directory. Each command has its own set of parameters.

src/cli/Build.go

The build command creates a new Build instance with the given directory and calls the Run method.

If no directory is specified, it will use the current directory.

If the --dry flag is specified, it will perform all tasks except the final write to disk. This flag should be used in most tests and benchmarks to avoid needless disk writes.

q build
q build examples/hello
q build examples/hello --dry

src/build/Build.go

The Build type defines all the information needed to start building an executable file. The name of the executable will be equal to the name of the build directory.

Run starts the build which will scan all .q source files in the build directory. Every source file is scanned in its own goroutine for performance reasons. Parallelization here is possible because the order of code in a directory is not significant.

The main function is meanwhile waiting for new function objects to arrive from the scanners. Once a function has arrived, it will create another goroutine for the function compilation. The function will then be translated to generic assembler instructions.

All the functions that are required to run the program will be added to the final assembler. The final assembler resolves label addresses, optimizes the performance and generates the specific x86-64 machine code from the generic instruction set.

The Run method is currently not fully implemented.

Tests

go test -coverpkg=./...

Benchmarks

go test -bench=. -benchmem

License

Please see the license documentation.

README.md

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