The Boron Programming Language

Boron is a simple, light, readable, and efficient programming language.

Boron Syntax

More information about Boron syntax is continuously forthcoming. FORMAL-GRAMMAR.md provides an introduction to Boron grammar.

The Boron Compiler

This repository holds the source code for the Boron compiler, boron. boron compiles Boron source code (.brn files) to output C source files (.c files).

Building boron

The Boron compiler is written fully in the Rust programming language and can be compiled with an up-to-date version of cargo.

From Crates.io

Boron can be installed from the crates.io registry.

$ cargo install boron-lang
$ boron [input].brn

From Source

Boron can also be built and executed from source using the following commands.

$ git clone https://github.com/hobbsbros/boron.git
$ cd boron
$ cargo build --release
$ ./boron [input].brn