slang 🐕‍🦺

goal was to learn how a interpreter works, in other works who does these programing languages i use on daily basis works behind the seen how a variable is assigned it’s value and other things in the same realm.

why ?

before this i mainly worked with scripting language other than java. the gofmt and binary file output are the main reasons though.

can i use this language ?

NO ☠️

this barely even compare to the stepping stones of a daily driven language like go or js. it exists only so that someone can read and understand how a language works under the hood.

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Main Components of a language

• Token list
• Tokenizer ( lexer )
• Parser
• Compiler

How to RUN 🎽

    #file is a flag , use it to run your file
    slang -file ./sample/sample.so

OR

    slang 
    # running slang in your terminal without any flags gives you a console to work with.

⛷️ Supported Datatype

• Boolean
• Integer
• String

How to define a variable

let x = 42;

How to if/else

Does not support elseif

        if (x == 1) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }

How to use a function

let fibonacci = fn (x) {
    if (x == 0) {
        return 0;
    } else {
        if (x == 1) {
            return 1;
        } else {
            fibonacci(x - 1) + fibonacci(x - 2);
        }
    }
};

fibonacci(15);