qupa-project / uniview-lang

View once immutability enabling the safeties of immutable code, while enjoying near procedural performance
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compiler language llvm

Uniview-lang

View once immutability enabling the safeties of immutable code, while enjoying near procedural performance

The core goal of this language is to implement compile time determined memory managed applications without developers needing to consider memory management. No pointers, no life times, just code.

When any non-primative value is viewed it can no longer be used, this extends to structure attributes. However there is no concept of null or undefined being a value. Undefined is a compile time state and that's it.

fn main(): int {
    let person = Blank#[Person]();
    print(person.name); // name has now been consumed
    consume(person); // error cannot compose person due to undefined name
}

You can also find a few examples in test/pre-alpha/.

Compiler Arguments

Argument Use
-o {filename} The destination file name for the LLVM IR and binary output
-s The compilation level to perform llvm, assembly
--execute Executes the binary output after successful compilation
--version Prints the version of the compiler
--verifyOnly Compiles to LLVM, but does not store the results or compiles further
--compileOnly Compiles to binary, but does not execute the result
--opt {num} Runs optimisation passes over the output (any number between 0-3 inclusive)