Terra implementation in Lua based on lx and llvm.

Status

Work-in-progress

Goals

• fix terra bugs and warts that nobody seem to be able or willing to fix in the original implementation, and I’m unwilling to touch that C++ mess.
  • make typechecking lazy again.
  • make overloads automatic again.
  • var decl shadowing like Lua.
  • fix __for semantics.
  • macro syntax.
  • make ^ sugar for pow() and add a xor operator.
• add some needed features:
  • struct, field & func annotations syntax.
  • nested functions with lexical scoping like gcc would really make life easier.
  • ternary operator syntax? : can’t be used, and iif() macro is meh…
  • should we add ++, –, +=, -=, *= /=, ^=, >>=, <<= or is it too much?

TODO

• build libclang into llvm.dll
• extend LLVM/libclang C APIs
• terra parser
• terra typechecker
• llvm code gen
• better compile-time error tracebacks
• terra-C interface
• terra-Lua interface
• build & link API
• debug symbols
• unit tests
• type caching API incl. generated code

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