läspa

A toy language I designed to be as easy as possible to implement. Reminiscent of lisp, läspa uses Reverse Polish Notation for basic arithmetic and for function calls. With a basic interpreter implemented, I plan to implement a compiler with the help of LLVM and plain machine-code generation.

Installation

shell git clone https://github.com/manorajesh/laspa.git && cd laspa cargo test

The language is currently only a library with a full test suite.

Usage

See this test file for example syntax.

Why

I was reading an article on the fastest implementation of a binary search algorithm. I saw llvm and thought to myself: "Hmm, wouldn't it be interesting to make a language." The rest is history.

Important Code

The lex, parse, and eval functions are the meat of the execution of the language. Those familiar with language development will recognize those names.