12Thanjo / Panther

Statically typed, compiled, high-performance, general-purpose programming language.

Panther

Statically typed, compiled, high-performance, general-purpose programming language.

Important

This repository is largely just a proof of concept. No further development of the repository is expected. However, the project itself is still being developed, and you can find it here as part of the PCIT project.

Warning

Because the project has moved, this repository will be deleted at some point in the future.

Notes:

• This compiler is currently super early into development, so there's not any way to use it without directly editing settings in pthr/main.cpp
• It is not robust yet. For example, it is possible to get it to have a fatal error in some cases while parsing
• The code is not optimized yet, nor is it the absolute cleanest.
• There are lots of features that are disallowed now but will be added at some point in the future
• The logo may change in the future, but for now it's good enough

Goals:

These are the goals that I wish to achieve with this language / compiler. In no particular order:

• Fast compile times
  • fast enough to compile all source code at once (create just one translation unit)
• Nice, readable, and helpful error messages
• Compiler helps you find mistakes (for example, nodiscard by default)
• Zero-cost abstractions
• Fast runtime (performance on-par with languages like C++)
• Language helps you catch mistakes without getting in the way (so nothing like Rust's borrow-checker)
• Seamless interop with C code (like Zig)
• Nice, readable code
  • No preprocessor
• Enjoyable to use
• Run arbitrary code at compile time (like Jai)
• Improved optimizability
  • Give the compiler more information about language constructs (without being verbose)
  • Attempt to run as much code at compile time as possible (yes, I'm aware of the halting problem)
• The build system is in Panther (like Zig and Jai)
• Compile-time reflection

Long Term Goals:

These are the goals I have that are for after a 1.0.0 release:

• Rich and high-performance standard library
• Seamless interop with C++
  • May be impractical or impossible as Panther doesn't have features like inheritance or exceptions
• Self-hosted compiler (meaning, the Panther compiler is written in Panther)
• Panther debugger
• Package manager

Downloading:

git clone https://github.com/12Thanjo/Panther.git --recursive

Building:

Instructions on how to build (work on progress) can be found here.

Updates:

List of changes for each version can be found here.