bread 🍞

bread is an expression based, object oriented, dynamically typed scripting language with first class closures, and a garbage-collected interpreter for that language (see GUIDE.md for more information on using bread). The design goals for bread are as follows:

• Get a good grade on my final project in my programming languages class

Building bread

bread has no dependencies outside of the C standard library, so simply run

make release

to create an optimized build. The generated binary will be ./release/bread. To install bread, run

make install

By default bread will be installed in ~/.local/bin/bread. To run a bread file, the command is

bread file.brd

To start a REPL, just run bread with no arguments. You can run bread --help for more detailed usage information.

Acknowledgements

Crafting Interpreters for reference/inspiration in implementing various parts of the interpreter, in particular calling convention for closures and the garbage collector.

The Lua programming language, for inspiration on syntax and some of the bytecode operations for the virtual machine.