The Drift Programming Language

Refined, minimalist, modern, beautiful

• Written in C++
• Minimalist grammar, 14 keywords, 40 bytecode
• Frame and Stack structure interpreter
• Bytecode virtual machine

For documentation and project architecuture,
visit the official website https://drift-lang.fun/
Basic grammatical format of drift, please check the instance code awesome.ft

It’s a toy language, Have Fun!!

Build

• Switch CC field in Makefile and specify your g++ compiler path
• The development version is 10.2.0

make
make install

To install:

export PATH=$PWD:$PATH

To run:

drift                 # REPL MODE
drift <ft file>          # FILE MODE
drift -d              # REPL AND DEBUG MODE
drift <ft file> -d    # FILE AND DEBUG MODE
drift -b              # REPL AND DIS BYTECODE
drift <ft file> -b    # FILE AND DIS BYTECODE

To clean:

make clean

Collaborative development

• Lack of FFI support
• Syntax highlighting support for Virtual Studio Code, tool directory
• Standard library and bug testing, etc

License

Copyright (c) 2021 bingxio（丙杺，黄菁）. All rights reserved.
GNU General Public License, more to see file: LICENSE
https://www.gnu.org/licenses
          THE DRIFT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
          https://github.com/bingxio/drift
          https://www.drift-lang.fun/