Astra - Compiler for a Swift-like language.

Motivation

I was thinking about a project like this for a long time and the language I will be making this in is Rust - in my eyes a very promising language to get into.
This project is an opportunity for me to learn Rust and Git usage at the same time, as well as prepare for internships and deepen the knowledge about compilers.

Usage

1. Clone the repository
   

git clone https://github.com/norbertcygiert/AstraCompiler.git
cd AstraCompiler

2. Build the project
   

cargo build

3. Run the AstraScript (.astra) file
   

cargo run -- <filename>

For help use:

cargo run -- -h 

Roadmap

• Lexer
  
• Parser
  
• Error reporting
  
• Variables
  
• Unary expressions
  
• Conditional statements
  
• "While" loops
  
• Introduce AstraScript
  
• Type checking
  
• Functions
  
• Full AstraScript language design
  
• Transpiler (?)
  

References

Julian Hartl's "Bulding a compiler in Rust" playlist and "natrixcc" compiler collection

https://github.com/julian-hartl/natrixcc

Official Rust-Lang Documentation

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/