Lance

My only compiled language.

History

I wanted to try to make a compiled language with LLVM. I originally was going to make stick (then named "Lance") that compiled language, but realized its stringy types made it not a very interesting target. So I renamed it to stick, and then started working on Lance.

I intended to bootstrap it, but never got around to it. However, it still functions, but it's a bit messy.

Overview

Lance is a Rust-inspired language that I designed with the intent of bootstrapping it as soon as possible. As such, the syntax is intended to be fairly minimal to begin with, to make parsing it easier.

I added some things (like tagged enums) later, so they dont have a ton of nice syntax support. I planned on fixing that when I bootstrapped, but never did.

Compiling

Lance's compiler is... not terrific. It compiles to llvm, but depends on things in the include/ folder. steps:

1. Go into ./include and run make. It should create an out directory and populate it with a few .ll files.
2. cd into the directory containing the .lc files, removing the out folder if it exists.
3. Run /<path/to/lance/folder>/compiler/lance --no-compile, passing -i for each file you want to compile. You can run this command per file, or just pass multiple -is, both are fine.
4. run clang out/*.ll /<path/to/lance/folder>/include/out/*.ll, and your program will be in a.out