Shard - "The OSR of programming languages" is this even a good quote?
Shard - "The OSR of programming languages" is this even a good quote?
Simple, pragmatic, and non-opinionated functional flavoured imperative language.
// pretty average language :p
let average = |a: &[u32]|: u32 {
loop let (sum, i) = (0, 0) {
if i == a.len: break sum;
(sum + a[i], i + 1)
} / a.len
};
- Types as first class values, with insanely powerful type inference.
- All the things you'd expect in a modern language like: generic types, fat pointers, explicit mutability, etc.
- Clojure like threading macros, allowing for a method-chain like syntax.
(I cannot believe ALL languages dont have this, its just so useful)
- Compiling to llvm IR, making it decently fast and platform agnostic out of the box.
- Linear type system and minimal move semantics.
- Pattern matching, and destructuring. Pretty much Rust with few confusing syntaxes removed.
- Shark mascot! (best of all the features) if you wanna draw a full ascii version lmk
- We arent planning on making a package manager or build system for shard.
Although this might change in the future if the need arises.
- When are you gonna release? ... :( Yeah we're kinda starved for people to work on it..
Please help out if you can! (join the Discord for more info)
- Where's the old shard? This is a new project. I realized the old one was.. not very useful.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it done in the future, but I decided to take a more pragmatic direction towards the dev.
One day we might also make Phase as a companion project, but that is a long way off.
- Who's working on this? Check the repo for up to date info.
Currently its mostly me + bullying others into helping.