jaktnat | experimental port of the SerenityOS Jakt programming

jaktnat is a C# library. jaktnat has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Jaktnät aims to implement as much of the Jakt programming language as possible, on the .NET runtime. Unlike Jakt, which transpiles to C++, it is a compiler that produces .NET assemblies executable via the dotnet CLI. However, it cheats a bit by transpiling its Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) into a C# AST via Roslyn, and then uses Roslyn to compile the .NET assembly. You can view or output the transpiled C# instead of compiling it into an assembly via the jaktnat transpile command. The first version of the backend used Mono.Cecil to emit IL into the assembly, but this is unnecessarily complex if accepting C# language constraints is viable. I was able to move much faster using Roslyn instead, so I've relegated the Mono.Cecil backend to an obsolete experiment with only minimal language support currently. I may revisit that backend in the future. Note that Mono.Cecil was chosen over System.Reflection.Emit due to its ability to produce an assembly on disk, which is not possible in Emit as of .NET 6. Jaktnät uses ANTLR as a parser/lexer generator. You can see the grammar in the Jaktnat.g4 file. The ANTLR NuGet package automatically builds the lexer and parser and other related files based on this grammar file when the Jaktnat.Compiler project is built.