Terbium

The performant yet elegant and feature-packed programming language. Implemented with Rust.

Installation

Terbium is still a work in progress. You can contribute by simply cloning this repository, however.

Goals

We want Terbium to meet the following:

• A language that doesn't take long to learn
• A language emphasizing strong and static types
  • Types are static, but type inference will exist
• A language which is fast and performant
• A language which is elegant to write and emphasizes readability
• A language (compiler/interpreter) that catches bugs before runtime

Static types?

We want to enforce a static type system in Terbium that isn't too restrictive:

• Optionally allow a variable to keep a constant type throughout its lifetime (let)
• Default all types to the auto type (Type inference)
  • When a type cannot be inferred, use the any type unless explicitly disabled (@pt:strict)
• Allow a robust type system (e.g. Generics)

Terbium designs static types like this so that while beginners don't have to learn Terbium with the complexity of a type system, and gradually implement these types as they learn more about them.

Hello, world!

require std;

func main() {
    std.println("Hello, world!");
}

Repository Navigation

• terbium_grammar: Tokenizes Terbium code and transforms it into an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

Credits

Terbium is a project by jay3332.

Thanks to the following core contributors:

• Cryptex-github: Creating workflows + General contributions