Cesium v 0.3:

Dependencies:

• Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collection

Build:

Update directory paths at the top of the Makefile then type:

make

To run, simply type:

./cesium

Introduction:

Cesium is a language with the following features:

• LLVMJit backend for performance
• Local type inference
• C foreign function interface
• Syntax and expression macros
• Garbage collection
• Imperative and functional styles
• Parameterised types
• Ad hoc and parametric polymorphism

Progress:

• Parser combinators - almost done
• Symbol Hash table - not done
• Parser - not done
• Environments - not done
• Type system - not done
• Back end - not done
• Closures - not done
• Type inference - not done
• FFI - not done
• Module system - not done