Kiln

Kiln is the reference compiler tool for the Brick programming language.
It (will) include a compiler, a JIT interpreter, and a suite of extra programming tools.

Here's some of the commands:

• kiln fire - compile the project, using the current directory's Kilnfile as reference
• kiln glaze - run the interactive top-level interpreter.
• kiln test - run a test suite with the test handler specified in the Kilnfile.
• kiln doc - compile all documentation from the project.
• kiln check - run a suite of linting and type-checking tools over the project. The scope of these tools can be specified in the Kilnfile.
• kiln format - run an automatic text formatting tool over the project, making sure that all source is compliant with the project's style specifications.
• kiln run file - run the file using the JIT interpreter

Installation

First, install OPAM and initialize it if you haven't already.

opam pin add kiln . -n
opam install kiln

Hacking

For in-source builds, there is a provided Makefile that will build to _build.

Construction

We're adopting a front-to-back compiler construction model, albeit more incremental than most. Right now, you can run kiln parse path/to/file.br and get a constructed AST from from well-formed input.

Status

Current status is something like this:

• Lexer
• Parser {partially constructed}
• Annotation (Typing, Parallel fragmentation, etc.)
  • Typing engine in progress, see Kekka
• Lambda IR Transformation (Similar to Haskell and OCaml)
• CMM Transformation
• LLVM IR emission
• Runtime (GC, primitives, parallel ops, etc.)
  • GC complete, see Acid