vinci

Another C-like language. The Vinci language is like JAVA or C, based on algorithmic construction. To avoid a long learning, the language is near from the existing ones: C, JAVA or PHP.

As other languages, Vinci should run on any platform. It uses the ANTLR4 engine for the grammar which is quite convenient to build a compiler quickly.

Features

The features to be included are:

• Simple to learn (for JAVA developers)
• A basic interpreter.
• A easy "threading" construction including a protection of the vriables.
• A construction for "events" jobs.
• An easy path to force developers to write "functional" code.
• A native mapping
• A native array usages (basically "List" from JAVA).
• Easy write for properties.
• Automatic heritage for variable types (due to functional coding).
• Null pointer special processing
• Preprocessor (like in "C/C++") (waouh!)
• Assertion included like in C/C++ (with removing in Release mode)
• Annotations.
• Code obfuscation (for compiled version).
• Multiple compilation stage (grammar tree for native compilation or direct interpretation through a virtual machine).
• Helping the coding of unit tests.
• Convention over configuration whenever possible.
• Native JSON processing
• Garbage collector (or count of references).

Examples

Is there any tutorial or example? Not yet... But, look at the test suite: you have all the capabilities tested.

For what?

A C/C++/JAVA alternative due to native compilation. The grammar provided has a good level of information to be compiled quickly for different languages. The main goal is to have a LLVM code generation to have native code.