Luminique Programming Language

Luminique is a high-level programming language designed to provide developers with a simple and elegant syntax reminiscent of JavaScript. It is implemented in C, making it efficient and versatile for a wide range of applications.

Features

• High-level syntax: Luminique's syntax is designed to be intuitive and easy to understand, making it accessible to both novice and experienced programmers.
• Bytecode execution: Luminique programs are compiled to bytecode, which is then executed by the Luminique virtual machine (LVM). This allows for efficient execution and portability across different platforms.
• Garbage collection: Luminique features automatic memory management through a garbage collector, relieving developers from manual memory management concerns.
• Dynamic typing: Luminique supports dynamic typing, enabling flexible and expressive code without the need for explicit type declarations.
• Object model: In Luminique everything is an object and every object has a class, this includes nil, true, false, int, float, string, function, class etc.
• Standard library: Luminique comes with a standard library that is updated day by day.

Installation

To install Luminique, follow these steps:

1. Clone the Luminique repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/davidoskiii/Luminique.git
cd Luminique

2. Clear the build directory and compile the executable:

   rm -rf ./build/*
   cmake -S . -B ./build
   cmake --build ./build
   ./build/luminique

3. Try it out with the examples in the tests directory or read the documentation (dosn't exist yet :D).

Mentions

This repository is based on the book "Crafting Interpreters" by Robert Nystrom and it's supposed to be a superset of the Lox VM written in C with a different syntax. I also want to mention that the repository it's a personal project and exits only for learning purposes, because of this I want to mention all of the resources that helped me in my journey:

• CLox, by HallofFamer (https://github.com/HallofFamer/CLox): HallofFamer's repository was my second source of learning how programming languages work, in fact a lot of my VM is inspired by the CLox VM, especially the concurrency features (generator, promise API, async/await). I really recommend to check out his repository and leave him a star.
• clox, by mrjameshamilton (https://github.com/mrjameshamilton/clox): Thanks to mrjameshamilton's repository I was able to expand the VM to support more than the original 255 constants per chunk.