The Ciz Programming Language

Ciz is an attempt to create a programming language, compiler and environment meant for systems programming. The lang is inspired by Visual Basic, mainly because of nostalgia, as it was the first programming language I learned.

Right now the compiler is not ready for use, as it only consists in a lexer and a parser; and it lacks fundamental statements such as if, else, while.

Build

If you have ever built a C project, you know what to do. Otherwise: install gcc and make, and compile the final executable with the make command. To remove object files from the working tree issue make clean.

Note: if you want to use a different compiler, call make setting the variable CC to the path of that compiler. Example: CC=clang make.

The make command defaults to the release target, which optimises the code and does not generate debugging symbols. To test the program it is recommended to use the debug version (make debug). Use also the debug target if you're using debuggers.

Take a look at the build system.

Syntax example

This is the syntax I'm trying to implement. Note that this might change in the future.

proc Main :: Int () do
    ret 0;
end

You can read other samples inside the tests folder.

Roadmap

• Working lexer
• Parse procedures and expressions
• Conditionals, loops
• Type checking
• Evaluate expressions
• Context, local and global variables
• Native AMD64 NASM backend
• LLVM backend (through a C++ binding library)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.