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titzer / virgil

A fast and lightweight native programming language
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docs / release? #15

Closed andychu closed 4 years ago

andychu commented 5 years ago

I read the Virgil III paper, and it seems like a really cool mix of high level features and low level code -- the holy grail :)

I tried it out and made an echo.v3 program run under the interpreter, ran a jar, and ran an x86 executable.

Any plans for a release or maybe a README describing how to use it? I had to read the shell scripts to figure out how to invoke it.

I'm interested in the compile-time metaprogramming among other things.

It looks like it is still aimed more at embedded systems, since there's no module system or C integration? (as far as I can see)

titzer commented 5 years ago

Hi Andy,

You're right of course :-) The documentation rotted a bit. It used to look fairly decent years ago when it was hosted on code.google.com, but I haven't lifted a finger to update it to GitHub MD yet.

titzer commented 4 years ago

I've imported some documentation from the old wiki, updated it, and added a README.