UppLang is a new programming language that I'm current developing as a hobby. Although the goal of this project is to create a usable language as a replacement for C/C++ for other Hobby-Projects of mine, the focus of UppLang is my personal education and research.
The project currently includes:
- A fully functioning text-editor featuring:
- Full Undo/Redo history
- Syntax-Highlighting
- Fuzzy Code-Completion
- Goto-Definition
- Displays Program-Information (Expression Types, Errors, function parameter types, ...)
- Fuzzy text search
- VIM-keybindings (Not documented, so I'm probably the only person that can use it properly)
- The programming language/compiler
- Lexer, Parser, Semantic-Analyser, Intermediate Code Generator, Backend Code Generators
- Bytecode generator + bytecode interpreter for fast compile-times and compile time code execution
- C-Code backend, which generates C code that is then compiled using msvc for code-optimizations (LLVM backend is planned for the future)
- Incremental compilation and hot-code reloading (Currently in development)
- An integrated debugger
- Step-into, step-out-of, step-over
- Breakpoints
- Watch window
- Call-Stack window
The design of UppLang is strongly influenced by the following other Programming-Languages (most of which were in very early stages when this project started):
- Jai (Based on Jonathan Blow's development videos)
- Odin
- Zig
- Go
In this project I wanted to stick to a mostly C-Style programming style and I wanted to keep external dependencies minimal, so it also includes
- Win32 Window handling
- Rendering with OpenGL
- Custom text rendering (Using TrueType library for font loading)
- Custom immediate mode UI
- Memory management with custom Allocators (although older parts of the code still use C++ style container classes)
- Custom Datastructures (DynArray == std::vector, Hashtable, DependencyGraph) using the custom allocators
The whole project is currently around ~75.000 lines of code handwritten without the use of AI.
