Xelis VM

Xelis is an interpreted language developed in Rust. It supports constants, functions, while/for loops, arrays and structures. The syntax is strongly inspired by the Rust programming language.

The different primitive types present in the language are:

• String
• Number (represents an unsigned 64-bit number)
• Boolean

File extension is .xel

Roadmap

• Lexer
• Parser
• Verifer (type checking...)
• Interpreter
• Documentation

How it works

First of all, in order for the code you write to work, it must pass through several stages before being executed.

The code goes through a lexer, which transforms a string into a list of tokens. This list of tokens allows us to generate statements and/or expressions using the parser.

Then, once our program is created with the different instructions, we have to check their validity, (example: that a variable/function name is not already used, type checking, a if statement before a else statement, return a value only if the function allows it...)

Once these tests are passed, we can execute the code using the interpreter which will take care of executing the different instructions.

Testing

If you want to test the code from program.xel make sure you have Cargo installed.

cargo run

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