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.
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.
```bash $ 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 ```
Here's how you implement basic control flow structures in xasm.
```rust 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!
To write object oriented code in xasm, first you write a class. ```rust 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.
rust
p = new(Point, 2, 3)
Because xasm supports closures, you can easily implement church encodings.
```rust 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.
```rust multiply = fn(n) { fn(m) { mul(n, m) } }
double = multiply(2) triple = multiply(3)
println(double(3)) println(triple(3)) ```
Install Rust
```bash
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh ```
Install / update xasm
bash
cargo install -f xasm
If you run into a problem, post an issue!
xasm is distributed under the terms of the Apache License (Version 2.0).
See LICENSE for details.