xasm

A cross platform, compiled and dynamically typed programming / intermediate language

Xasm is meant to be an intermediate representation for compiled and dynamically typed programming languages. However, xasm is still itself suitable for scripting.

Features

• Dynamic typing
• Lua-like speeds
• An easy to use Rust foreign function interface
• First class support for Functional and Object Oriented programming
• Simple syntax

Documentation

You can find the virtual machine's documentation here, and the compiler backend documentation here. Both of these components are called xmachine and xassembler respectively, and you can find them on my GitHub account.

$ xasm

xasm x.x.x
Adam McDaniel <adam.mcdaniel17@gmail.com>
Compiler for the xasm programming language

USAGE:
    xasm [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    compile    Compile a xasm file
    help       Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    run        Run a xasm file

Examples

Here's how you implement basic control flow structures in xasm.

value = 1

if value {
    println("`value` is not 0")
} else {
    println("`value` is 0")
}


while 1 {
    println("Still looping!")
}

Keep in mind that xasm is intended to be an intermediate representation!

Object Oriented Programming

To write object oriented code in xasm, first you write a class.

class Point {
    fn new(self, x, y) {
        self.goto(x, y)
        self
    }

    self.goto(self, x, y) {
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
    }
}

The new method is typically used to instantiate an object, but you can write other constructors if you'd like. The reason we use the new method is because the new function will call our class's new function to construct our object.

Here's how we would construct our Point.

p = new(Point, 2, 3)

Functional Programming

Because xasm supports closures, you can easily implement church encodings.

fn True(a) {
    fn(b) { a }
}

fn False(a) {
    fn(b) { b }
}

fn If(c) {
    fn(a) {
        fn(b) {
            (c(a))(b)
        }
    }
}

In addition, you can use more practical functional programming techniques.

multiply = fn(n) {
    fn(m) {
        mul(n, m)
    }
}

double = multiply(2)
triple = multiply(3)

println(double(3))
println(triple(3))

Installation

Install Rust

# For *nix users
# If you're a windows user, go to https://rust-lang.org
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Install / update xasm

cargo install -f xasm

Issues

If you run into a problem, post an issue!

License

xasm is distributed under the terms of the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE for details.