electric-socket / LitePascal

Self host Object Pascal compiler with < 8000 sloc

LitePascal

Self host Object Pascal compiler for x86_windows (32 bit) target with < 8000 sloc.
This code is based on brilliant XD-Pascal (Vasiliy Tereshkov), compatible with Turbo Pascal 5.

Roadmap

Beta 1

• Lite OOP (Golang semantic) using simplified Pascal syntax
• Fluent interface pattern
• Implicit overload
• Revised String type implementation
• Multi-line strings
• Strings with char codes
• Case statements with any type and interface type
• Unit initialization
• PR with these contributions for XD-Pascal project

Beta 2

• Lite error handling
• Embedded length for open array parameters
• Low and High functions for open arrays
• Conditional compilation
• Include files
• Macros
• Lite generics
• Inline procedures/functions
• Short procedures/functions
• PR with these contributions for XD-Pascal project

Beta 3

• More FPC/Delphi compatibility
• Even smaller minimal executables
• Library using unit syntax
• Library (dll/so) building

Release 1

• x64_windows target
• PR with these contributions for XD-Pascal project

Release 2

• x64_linux and x86_linux targets
• PR with these contributions for XD-Pascal project

Release 3

• SIMD support
• Benchmarks game samples

Release 5

• coroutines support (based on goroutines)
• LiteHTTP server (based on miniHttp(Rust) server)

Release 4

• HTMX, HyperScript and Hyperview support
• SQLite support
• Very simple IDE (LiteIDE) in LitePascal, HTMX, HyperScript and CodeMirror