ac-lang | My toy programming language

ac-lang is a C# library. ac-lang has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

A statically-typed garbage-collected native (toy) programming language. Ac is a toy programming language which serves as a platform for me to learn and experiment about compiler design and implementation. This is not ever intended to be a productive language. In fact it's the first language I designed and implemented from scratch. Hence the design of the language isn't necessarily concerned with programmer productivity but simply by ease of implementation of the few available features. The syntax is similar to C (Ac is short for A C-like Language), though also influenced by other modern languages like Rust, Swift... Ac has a handwritten lexer and parser which constructs an Abstract Syntax Tree. Semantic analysis then does name binding, resolving and type checking. A code generation step finally produces human readable C-code which is compiled by gcc. I didn't implement a real runtime, so in order to provide garbage collection I simply embedded Boehm GC. I've got many ideas for features I'd like to add: generics, classes - especially Abstract Data Types and pattern matching. Unfortunately I believe Ac served it's purpose and the code base is a hot mess by now. Implementing new things takes an extraordinarly long time, since every new feature almost seems to mandate a complete rewrite. Obviously I learned a lot, but for my next foray into programming languages I'm probably going to start from scratch and with a better idea of what to expect.