The Etude Programming Language

Introductory presentation (ru)

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Etude is lower-ish level programming language designed for educational purposes but with the aspirations of writing real-world software.

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Currently the compiler can run some basic programs but hopelessly lacking in other ways. Sometimes in non-obvious ways. I do intend to fix all these imperfections eventually, if the god is willing. Until then, have fun!

Hosting

1. Github ← ⭐⭐⭐!
2. Sourcehut
   • Tickets for the compiler
   • Mailing list
   • Source code
3. Gitea with syntax highlighing ← code written in Étude

First steps

1. Look in the examples/test directory to get a feeling of the syntax
2. Build the compiler:

   • Dependencies: fmt, qbe.

   • Run cmake & make

     cmake -B build
     cd build
     make -j8

   • Add the path to stdlib to your environment

     The author does this:

     export ETUDE_STDLIB="$HOME/.cache/etude"
     ln -s $(realpath ./stdlib) $ETUDE_STDLIB
     

   • Run the tests (if they fail, try different commit)

     chmod +x test.sh
     ./test.sh

3. At this point you are ready to hack on the compiler

Historic/Old

Check out the 0.2.0 tag of the repository: it contains the bytecode compiler and interpreter as well as graphviz vizualizer.

Contributors

• Mark Ziganshin