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    1.0.0 Alpha Pre-Release

    teascade released this 2025-07-27 00:32:16 +02:00 | 103 commits to main since this release

    Changelog

    Reid 1.0.0 alpha, with many features (too many to list), but e.g.:

    • Many types of integers, floats, boolean, and string-literals
    • Basic algebra binary and unary-operations (e.g. Add, Sub, Div, Mult, And,
      Not)
    • Borrows/derefs, pointers.
    • Declaration and call functions with varying parameters and return types
    • Type-checking and type-inference such that return-types and
      parameter types must always match.
    • Simple logic-operations (e.g. If/And/Or)
    • Accessing, defining and initializing structs and arrays.
    • Defining and executing For/While loops
    • Outputting detailed debug information
    • Defining extern functions that can be linked to outside modules such as libc.
    • Defining custom binary operations for any two types that hasn't been defined
      previously (such as u16 + u32).
    • Different ways to represent number-literals (Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, Binary)
    • Arrays and indexing
    • Structs and accessing
    • Strings and string manipulation in standard library
    • Type casting
    • Intrinsic functions (functions built-in to the compiler, not in standard library)
    • Ability to specify types in literals and variable definitions
    • Debug Information
    • Fix struct initialization (wrong order and missing fields allowe
    • Importing types from other modules
    • User-defined binary operations

    still missing e.g.

    • Associated Functions
    • Bitwise operations
    • Lexical Scopes for Debug Information
    • Language Server

    Usage

    ./cli hello_world.reid

    If you wish to pass feature-flags, the CPU-name or change the underlying linker, or add libraries to be linked, they can be set with environment variables like so:

    # Mark CPU as "generic"
CPU=generic ./cli hello_world.reid

# Mark "f16c"-feature
REIDFLAGS="+f16c"  /cli hello_world.reid

# Set linker to "mold"
LD=mold  /cli hello_world.reid

# Link against libSDL3
/cli hello_world.reid SDL3

    Requirements

    • Linux
    • libc
    • ld (can be changed)
    • whereis
    • LLVM 20.1 or newer (because this executable is dynamically linked)
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