🗑️ the trashcan programming language 🗑️

The trashcan language is a toy programming language that compiles to native x86_64/ARM64 assembly code. Its feature set is purposefully limited to types that fit into the registers of the CPU.

Features:

• types: void, bool, int, array, user-defined structs (must be passed by reference)
• math: add, sub, mul, div
• control flow: if, else if, else, while
• OS support: linux, macos
• functions
• type inference for locals
• code generation for x86_64 and arm64

Dependencies

• rust
• clang

Usage

# compile a program to an executable...
cargo run filename.tc

# compile a program to bytecode...
cargo run filename.tc -b

# compile a program to assembly...
cargo run filename.tc -s

Example program

fun do_spooky_add(a: int, b: int): int {
  return a + b;
}

var strings = ["hello!\n", "world!\n"];
var numbers = [420, 69];
var sum = 0;
var k = 0;

while k != numbers.length {
  sum = do_spooky_add(sum, numbers[k]);
  var name = strings[k];
  print(&name);

  k = k + 1;
}

assert(sum == 489);
assert(k == 2);

print(&"cowabunga!\n");