kmar / lethe

a statically typed, unsafe scripting language

lethe

a statically typed, unsafe scripting language

note: experimental, work in progress, there will most likely be bugs => use at your own risk

• requirements:

  • C++11 compiler
  • IEEE floating point
  • 2's complement integers
  • sizeof(bool) == 1
  • sizeof(char) == 1
  • sizeof(int) == 4
  • little endian CPU
  • script structs must be trivially movable (=no self-refs, implies no small buffer opts)

• features:

  • unsafe
  • no user-defined conversions
  • no function overloads
  • no exceptions
  • no garbage collector (uses intrusive reference counting)
  • no REPL
  • no multi-threaded compilation of scripts
  • no bytecode serialization
  • optional dumb JIT for x86/x64
  • debugger - win64/linux/OSX - binary only

• todo:

  • clean up/simplify/modernize
  • better documentation, more samples/libs

hello world (makes use of Terry A. Davis' (RIP) implied printf for expressions starting with a string literal):

		void main()
		{
			"Hello, world!\n";
		}