The Cecile Programming Language
## ⭐ Introduction
The Cecile, a little programming language designed for simplicity and flexibility.
## 🍎 Overview
Welcome to the Cecile programming language.
This language is part of my journey into learning compiler and interpreted languages. It's inspired by [ajeetdsouza/loxcraft](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/loxcraft), a great Rust project that implemented the Lox language.
The syntax of Cecile is influenced by traditional programming languages like JavaScript, Go, and Rust, with a strong emphasis on developer experience, readability and ease-of-use.
Cecile is written in Rust. Some of performance matter part is written in Unsafe Rust that makes fast enough to compete with traditional interpreted languages like Javascript, Python.
##
Important note: **This project is built for learning purposes**. The code quality of this project is definitely not production ready.
## 📕 Features
#### Language features
- [x] Interpreted
- [x] Bytecode compiler
- [x] Garbage collected in runtime
- [x] Type Supported
- [x] Basic types, Array
- [x] Control flow statements
- [x] Object Oriented Programming
- [x] Stack tracing
- [x] Repl
#### Ongoing features
- [ ] Online playground
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#### For compiled version of Cecile
- [ ] Make compiled
- [ ] Self-hosted
- [ ] Standart library
- [ ] Module system
## 🔥 Syntax examples
#### Variable Declaration
```rust
// Variable Declaration
let number: int = 1;
let string: String = "string";
// Ofcource you don't need to write type everytime you declare variable
let number = 2;
let string = "hello cecile";
```
#### Function Declaration
```rust
fn say_hello() -> String {
return "hello";
}
println say_hello() // Out: "hello"
```
#### Type Declaration
```rust
type Point {
x: int,
y: int,
}
impl Point {
fn new(x: int, y: int) {
self.x = x;
self.y = y;
}
}
let point: Point = Point();
```
#### Array & Builtin function
```rust
let arr = [1, 2, 3, 4];
arr.push(5);
println arr; // Out: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
```
## ⚙️️ Build Guide
### 🦀 Install Rust
We recommend installing Rust using [rustup](https://www.rustup.rs/). You can install `rustup` as follows:
- macOS or Linux:
```bash
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
```
- Windows (64-bit):
Download the [Windows 64-bit executable](https://win.rustup.rs/x86_64) and follow the on-screen instructions.
### 🐙 Install Cecile
```bash
# Install 'Cecile'
$ cargo install Cecile --locked
```
Now to use Cecile language, in your terminal, run:
```bash
Cecile
```