Welcome to the FoxLang Compiler! This is the official compiler for the FoxLang language, and a source of fundamental truth for the design of the language. The language was inspired by a clip of Freya Holmer commenting on the argument on tab characters versus space characters when used for indentation that can be found here. The final argument is that there should have been a seperate, multi-character width characted selected for indentation. FoxLang ends the argument between spacens and tabs by making indentation use the fox emoji (🦊). Tab characters can still be used for alignment.
This list is roughly in order of implementation
- Functions
- Structs (in progress)
- Type checking (in progress)
- Member functions (still deciding whether to include in FoxLang or not)
- Modules
- Including files
- Multi-threading + general code cleanup
- Macro & compile-time execution
- Plugin system (possibly for extending language systems, like rust proc macros for custom parsing)
- C/C++ support & external defs (I would like strong c++ support, unlike rust)
This builds using premake5, which is currently still in beta. As many dependencies are bundled in this repo, but that was not possible with llvm.
LLVM>= 19Clang>= 20
See (https://premake.github.io) for more information on how to use premake
Use premake to generate buildfiles, and use the buildfiles to build the project.
The current windows premake setup uses Clang for {Fmt} and msvc for the compiler, but this can be changed. Clang is required for {Fmt}. The current build setup has only been tested on Linux.
The plan is to eventually self-vendor all dependencies to a config directory to allow for easier building, and allow easy cross compiling with the FoxLang compiler.
Actually I'm just learning that there is a list of every language and its code block style in the github linguist repo