• Getting Started
  • Requirements
    • Main
  • Build
• Memory Management
• Roadmap
• License
• Inspirations

TITLE: Undâr Programming Language

A permacomputing & 3D video game oriented language transpiler.

Getting Started

Requirements

Main

• C compiler that supports C89

Build

git clone https://git.alfrescocavern.com/zongor/undar-lang.git
cd undar-lang && ./build

Memory Management

memory is stack based only.

For a limited dynamic style you can create unbounded arrays which go on a pre-allocated memory pool.

dynamic allocations push pointers within a call frame. when a frame exits, the pointer is reset and the child copys its return value to the end of the parent, thus freeing memory deterministically.

values passed to functions must be explicitly returned to propagate. if a value is modified in a child function it will change the parents value, unless the size of the structure changes then it will copy the parents value and append it to its own frame with the modification. this allows for the low resource usage of a C but the convenience of a Java/Go without the garbage collection.

Core Types

Type	Description
byte	Character/8 bit unsigned int
u8	8 bit unsigned int
i8	8 bit signed int
u16	16 bit unsigned int
i16	16 bit signed int
u32	exactly 32-bit unsigned integer
i32	exactly 32-bit signed integer
int	signed number
nat	unsigned number
real	Q16.16 fixed-point real number
str	fat pointer [length + data] string
bool	true/false

primitive types like int, nat, real, etc. will always be safe to change in child frames.

complex types like str, plex or arrays will be references to their location in the memory pool

Roadmap

Compiler, Plex, Immidate mode GUI, Constructive solid geometry, Tunnels, Actor model

License

MIT-0

Inspirations

• Plan 9 / 9P - Unified I/O, Tunnels.
• Lisp - Live coding, REPL, introspection.
• Fortran - Array semantics.
• C / Zig - Portability, control, minimalism.
• Lua - Friendly syntax, portable, and minimal.
• Lox - The start of my programming language creation journey.
• Uxn - Major inspiration, espeically around the core VM.
• Dusk OS - A much better system for doing permacomputing.
• Dis VM - CISC VM structure
• Retro Systems - N64, PS1, Mac Classic, Windows 95 - UI esthetics