Firework programming language

Programming language with accidental OCaml inspired syntax™ that transpiles to Haskell

Build Guide

1. Installing Rust

• *nix: sh curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

• Windows:

  Install rustup-init and run it

2a. Installing Firework

sh cargo install firework_lang

2b. Building from Source

sh git clone https://github.com/Pavlos-Efstathiou/firework_lang cd firework_lang cargo build --release

3. Installing GHC

Instructions

Quickstart

sh firework_lang new hello_world cd hello_world firework_lang run

4. Running the example

sh git clone https://github.com/Pavlos-Efstathiou/firework_lang cd firework_lang/example firework_lang run

Upcoming features

• [ ] Operators
• [ ] Algebraic Data Types
• [ ] An actually good transpiler
• [ ] Custom Data Types
• [ ] Dependency management
• [ ] Infix and prefix functions
• [ ] A Prelude
• [ ] Type inference
• [ ] Better parsing error messages
• [ ] Docs