Visit https://carth.pink/ for an overview of the language and more info.
Just as a little disclaimer: this project is still in alpha development, so there are no guarantees of stability etc.
- Scheme-inspired syntax and feel
- Static, Hindley-Milner typechecking à la ML
- Currying
- Closures
- Algebraic datatypes
- LLVM backend
This is a high-level overview of what is planned for the language, and some of the points are just tentative. See TODO.org for more extensive list of planned features and more detailed descriptions.
- Typeclasses
- Type families
- Higher kinded types
- Effect system
- Linear types
The compiler is written in Haskell and uses the Stack build system, while the core-library is written in Rust. The external dependencies required are LLVM version 9.
To build the project and install the carth binary, the core library, and the standard library, simply run make install, which defaults to installing the binary in ~/.local/bin, the core library in ~/.local/lib, and the modules of the Carth standard library in ~/.carth/mod.
At compiler runtime, the dependencies are libsigsegv, libdl, libpthread, libm, and libgc, which are linked into the executables produced by Carth.
Carth must further be able to find the core library and standard library modules, so you must have added the directory of the installed core library (default ~/.local/lib) to your LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, the directory of the installed standard library (default ~/.carth/mod) to your CARTH_MODULE_PATH environment variable.
# General help carth help carth -h carth --help # Help for a specific subcommand carth help c # Compile and run a program with default output filename carth c examples/fizzbuzz.carth ./examples/fizzbuzz.bin # Run with the JIT compiler carth run examples/fizzbuzz.carth # Compile a program with a specific output filename carth c -o examples/fizzbuzz examples/fizzbuzz.carth ./examples/fizzbuzzCarth is dual licensed under the Anti-Capitalist Software License or the AGPL version 3 or later. See LICENSE-ACSL and LICENSE-AGPLv3 for the full license texts. For more information about the licenses, go to anticapitalist.software or gnu.org.