Lumina

Lumina is a spartan C inspired language.

"Lumina" implies illumination and clarity, which can be associated with the purpose of programming languages to make complex tasks more understandable and manageable.

NOTE: The language is unstable and will have breaking changes.

Features

• Clarity and Readability: Lumina prioritizes human-readable code, making it an excellent choice for both beginners and experienced programmers.
• Efficiency: While emphasizing readability, Lumina doesn't compromise on performance. It's designed to be fast and efficient.
• Modern Syntax: Enjoy a clean and modern syntax that reduces boilerplate code and encourages best practices.
• Cross-Platform: Lumina supports Linux for now.

Packages

• luminafmt: Code Formatter for .lum source files.
• lumina-vsc: VS Code syntax highlighting support for .lum source files.

Build

Using build script

./build_lumina.sh release

Using cmake

$ cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build    # Compile lumina executable
$ cd build
$ ./build/lumina main.lum                       # Compile .lum source file
$ ./out                                         # Run your program

Dev

Memory error detection with valgrind

Using directly without building new binary

valgrind --track-origins=yes ./lumina test.lum

Using with build script and Makefile

./build_lumina.sh debug && make valwip && ./out & echo $?

Concepts

Back-end

Assemble to binary file and Linking to executable

nasm -felf64 test.asm
ld test.o -o test

• Assemble source.asm into a binary file output_file.
  • If output_file is not passed, it is inferred as source.o.
  • -f and -elf64. (x64 architecture)
• Link a specific object file with no dependencies into an executable.
  • test is the executable.

./test      # Run generated executable
echo $?     # See exit code

Many Thanks to

• Hydrogen upon which, Lumina was initially built on.
• Jai & Odin for being a guiding compass for sane modern language development.
• Compis, laye for inspiration for builing compilers in C.
• C, Go, Rust, Python and many more...