BQN.jl

An implementation of BQN in Julia.

Development

Add the following to the environment (direnv is useful here):

export JULIA_ROOT="/path/to/julia-1.7.2"
export JULIA_PROJECT="${PWD}"
PATH_add "${JULIA_ROOT}/bin"
PATH_add "${PWD}/bin"

Then:

• Linux operating system is assumed
• Clone the repo
• Run make init to initialize submodules and build the CBQN (BQN implementation used for bootstrap).
• Run julia and eval using BQN
  • BQN.bqn0 evals the BQN expression using CBQN for compilation
  • BQN.bqn evals the BQN expression using the self hosted compiler
• There's BQN REPL mode:
  • Start julia and after using BQN do BQN.Repl.init()
  • Enter ) and start typing BQN code
• make test0 runs the test suite for VM using CBQN hosted compiler
• make test runs the test suite for VM using self hosted compiler

TODO:

• Implement fill elements
• Implement headers
• Implement namespaces
• Runtime performance tuning
• Compilation latency tuning