"O. Inspired by Oberon and gO, and it's like C without the sharp edges." - @adamwp
It doesn't really have a name yet. The project is still very early.
The syntax and features are incomplete and will change. It is way, way
too early to do much of anything but watch me tinker with things,
building this incrementally.
The general plan is a small compiled systems language (in complexity, source size, and binary size) borrowing syntax from some of my favorite "braces languages", C, Go, and Rust, aiming to be a bit safer than C, and suitable for small, embedded, self-hosted systems.
Do you have to have a reason?
Documents and things that inspired this adventure.
A place for commentary, ideas, and random jottings.
Little boxes to be ticked when tasks are completed.
It's currently compiling a subset of the work-in-progress language and generating binaries for the Project Oberon Risc 5 Architecture.
I plan to also support RISCV (RV32I) as a target soonish, and if the project keeps moving will eventually target X86-64 because why not.
It's presently written in C, but once the core language is suitably featureful and codegen is reasonably reliable I plan to translate it to itself and become self-hosted.
All of the code here is provided under the Apache 2.0 License with the exception of third party modules which live under the external/ directory.
Notably, external/oberon-risc-emu/ contains the core RISC5 Emulator implemention from Peter Dr Wachter's excellent Oberon Risc Emu, which is under a BSD-like license.
I borrowed just the CPU emulation for a simple commandline runtime. The original project is a full Project Oberon Workstation emulator.