Project Description

Tungsten is supposed to be a memory-safe and type-safe language front-end for LLVM which borrows many elements from C and C# syntax. It is statically typed and meant to have very little overhead while providing modern language features. The compiler is written in C++20 and uses LLVM 17. I'm starting this project because I'm interested in compiler design and want to understand LLVM better.

Goals

• [x] Language reference
• [x] Parser
• [ ] Lexer
• [ ] AST
  • [ ] Math
    • [ ] Binary
    • [ ] Logical
  • [ ] Basic Keywords
  • [ ] Literals
  • [ ] Functions
  • [ ] Structs
  • [ ] Generics
  • [ ] Interfaces
• [ ] Code Generation
• [ ] User Project
  • [ ] Configs
  • [ ] Building

Nice-to-haves

• [ ] Standard library
• [ ] Examples
• [ ] Syntax highlighting
• [ ] Foreign Function Interface (FFI)

Resources

GitHub repository: https://github.com/marv7000/tungsten/