foidl

Frank's Orthogonally Independent Domain Language (foidl) is a functional programming language.

Caution: For all but the lack of garbage collection the current master is considered alpha at best and not ready for serious prime time consideration.

Inspirational:

• Homoiconicity
• Persistent data
• First class functions
• Lambda calculus (partial, currying, lambdas)
• Arbitrarily Large Numbers

My own twists:

• Typeless - Everything is Any thing for the most part
• Delimiterless (mostly) - Not for the weak of heart but I like to decide using format style

Prereqs

• Python 3.6+
• LLVM/Clang 7.0+
• libcurl (if using extensions)

Python libraries to pip in

• rply
• colorlog
• llvmlite

Coverage

Feature	macos	linux	windows
bootstrap	x	x	x
self-hosted	x	x	x
file channels	x	x	x
http channels	x	x
threads	x	x	x
thread-pools	x	x

Author's Environment(s)

OS	Python	rply	colorlog	llvmlite	LLVM	libcurl
macos 10.14.4	3.7.3	0.7.7	4.0.2	0.29.0	8.0.0	7.54.0
Ubuntu 18.04.1 (VM)	3.6.7	0.7.6	4.0.2	0.27.0	7.1.0	7.58.0
Windows 10.0.17134 (VM)	3.7.0	0.7.6	3.1.4	0.25.0	7.0.0	7.54.0

Building foidl

Building the executable, self-hosted, foidl compiler (foidlc) is 2 step process:

1. Build the libfoidl run time library - This is done with C/C++ and Python bootstrapping.

cd foidlrtl
make clean
make

2. Build the foidlccompiler - This is done with Python bootstrapping.

cd foidlc
make clean
make

The folder extends is the location for any runtime library/language extensions. Once you build the compiler, you can build extensions to be used in user programs. Each extension is it's own folder and will automatically be built with:

cd extends
make clean
make all

The folder tests/selfhosted contains a few contrived foidl examples. Once the foidl compiler is built it will be used to build them. After building the compiler do:

cd tests/selfhosted
make clean
make