px

A work in progress programming language

It transcompiles to C. It uses ICU4C for its unicode support apis.

Installation

Before trying to compile and run the program, you will need a compiler for c++ mingw will suffice.

Once the repository is cloned:

On visual studio code

1. Install C/C++
2. Install C/C++ Extension Pack

Continued

Install ICU

build.sh
cd compiler/src

Run PxMain.cpp with a filename fed to compile

Documentation

Variables

Variable declaration follows the format below

Variable_Name: Data_type = value;

Data Types

• int8/16/32/64
• uint8/16/32/64
• float32/64
• string
• char
• bool
• void
• object
• array (data_type[size])

Conditionals

If statements follow the format below

if(conditional_statement){}
else if(conditional_statement){}
else{}

For single if statements, brackets are not required. Break and continue are supported.

While statements follow the format below

while(conditional_statement){}

Functions

Functions should generally be declared prior to the main function and then defined after

func function_name(passed_variable_name:data_type) : ret_data_type {}

Void-returning functions are supported

Keywords

• abstract
• as
• break
• case
• concept
• continue
• default
• do
• else
• extern
• false
• for
• func
• if
• implementation
• interface
• module
• new
• private
• protected
• public
• ref
• return
• state
• switch
• true
• value
• while

Example

module test;

func blah(x:int32, y:int32) : void;

func main() : int32
{
	blah(123, 586);
	return 27;
}

func blah(x:int32, y:int32) : void
{
	a: uint32 = 1024_u32;
	i: int32 = x + -y;
	j: int32 = i ÷ 4.0 as int32;
	0x10ADF + 0b10101001 + 0o15675;
	i = j > 12 ? 256 : 384;
	b: bool = true;
	if( b == false )
	{
		q: int32 = j * i;
		b = true;
	}
    else if( i > 384 )
    {
        w: char = 'M';
    }
	else
		b = false;

	z: int32 = 0;
	do {
        z += 1;
        if( z == 12 )
            break;
    } while ( z > 0 && z < 20 )

    while ( z > 0 || b == true ) {
       z -= 1;
       if( z == 5 )
           continue;
    }

	c: char  = '\u263A';
	s: string = "こんにち\u263Aは世界";
	array: int64[5] = [1_i64, 3, 5, 7, 9];
	third: int64 = array[3];
	array[4] = 128_i64;
	printInt(third);

Contributions

For contributing to the project, refer to first-time contribution guide for guidance.

License

MIT