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Helium

is a toy system programming language and compiler

A small disclaimer.

First of all I ought to mention that Helium is not a real language, there is no specification(or rather it is in a state of flux), there is no plans for evolving it into a mainstream thing - I just build it for fun and experience, so please treat it just as such.

Language

As was mentioned in the disclaimer above there is no specification that can be written here, but there is a direction that I pursue. In my dreams Helium is a strong-typed system language with inherited hi-and-lo level language interpolation(not sure about this term), by this I mean it can seamlessly integrate with low-level assembly to perform some hardware specific operations and at the same time it is possible to write high-level logic in some scripting language where you do not have to worry about memory management, compatibility, hardware etc. Though I am not sure how to achieve this in an effective way yet but I definitely will.

Here are some documents related to the language(in progress):

• Grammar
• Types
• Declarations
• Expressions
• Macro
• Language interpolation
• Packages
• Standard library

Compiler

Test