sohomdatta1 / dis

Dis is stack-based language written in Typescript. The language can be compiled down to low-level assembly or be executed by a emulator. It is meant as a educational project to explore the challenges of designing a new language and implementing a compiler from scratch.

dis

Dis is stack-based language written in Typescript. The language can be compiled down to low-level assembly or be executed by a emulator. It is meant as a educational project to explore the challenges of designing a new language and implementing a compiler from scratch. Feel free to contribute and help out.

Roadmap

• Basic structure to evaluate arithmetic operations
• Support if-else statements and looping constructs
• Support variable declarations
• Support arrays
• Add type checking
• Support functions

Examples

3 4 +
$ ; End of program

Output: 7

Quick start

Run npm install -g . to install the compiler.

To run in emulator mode

$ dis run ./examples/first.dis
18

To compile to assembly

$ dis build ./examples/first.dis output
$ ./output
18

Dependencies

To run this project, you will need to install the following dependencies:

• NodeJS - Language the compiler and emulator are written in. (Preferably use lts/fermium or higher)
• nasm - The assembler that compiles the generated assembly into a binary.