MIRROR-LX-OriginalRepo/README.md

LX Language

This is my custom compiled language written in C++ based off of the LLVM toolchain. Do not use the language in it's current state unless you are insane.

Planned features (in order)

• Operations (Maths + BinOp)
• Functions
• More than just int as a type
• References / Pointers
• Structs / Classes (Polymorphism + vtables)

Codebase

• Errors
  • All simple errors (no members) use the same type
• Logging
  • Less templates
  • Standard for formatting
  • Choose what is logged
• Refactor
  • Use dynamic linking for debug builds (faster build times)
  • General clean up

Stuff I want to do later (unordered)

• I/O manager (Console, Files)
• Debugger support
• Extensions for vscode / vs22
• Build system
• SSA (Static single assignment)
• LX-Core (Basic Standard Lib)
• SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data)
• Built in features for multi-language codebases (C, C++, C#, Rust...)
• Custom Linker written in rust
• Package manager
• Custom optimiser (as well O3 in Clang)
• Complicated LX-Core:
  • Graphics APIs support
  • Networking support
  • WinAPI compatiability

Stuff I might do later (but probably won't)

• JIT (Just in time compiler) / Interpreter
• Different compiler backends
• Python support
• Non-windows OS support
• Database support