practical/practical-sa

The Practical Programming Language - Semantic Analyzer

Wrong Repository?

If you're looking for the actual Practical compiler, this is the wrong repository. Check out the Practicomp project (of which this is a subproject) for the stand-alone compiler.

Tracking Progress and Community

You can watch this repository to get minute updates on minor improvements to the language. Announcements on more significant milestones will be posted to the announcement forum at https://forum.practical-pl.org. This is also the place to ask questions about the language and its details.

If all you want is to get a taste for the program's syntax, please have a look at the code we use to test the compiler with.

Practical: Semantic Analyzer

This is the repository for the semantic analyzer library for the Practical programming language.

In order to make tooling easier, as well as allowing different back end implementations easy, the Practical compiler is split into a semantic analyzer library, and the actual glue that generates the code. The semantic analyzer is built to be generic, allowing implementing compilers over LLVM, GCC and Visual C backend with little or no need to port, or even adapt, the semantic analysis part of the compiler in any way.

What is Practical?

Practical is a new programming language designed to give the safety and features one would expect from a modern programming language without sacrificing speed in any way. Practical aims to be as fast, if not faster, than C.

Practical takes its inspiration for design and syntax from C++, Rust and D, while trying not to fall into any of the pitfalls that those languages encountered.

Practical is aimed for programmers in the gaming, storage, video and, eventually, embedded markets, where high throughput and low latency are everything.

Status

Practical is currently in preliminary the implementation effort stage.

Current compiler manages the basics: literals, function calls, variables and a few choice operators. This stage is important for deciding on the correct syntax and semantics.

What's Planned?

For specifics on the plans for the language, syntax and features, please check out the language's wiki.