The new blazingly fast high-level programming language. Giving you the simplicity of writing C code with the performance of writing native assembly code.
This is a compiler/assembler written in Rust for our custom high-level language we call NID-Lang.
This is meant to be a tool to help us develop a game on our custom CPU architecture in a high-level languages instead
of machine or assembly code. Learn more about the languages under docs/
Yes! But...
You need to support our custom instructions that can be found in docs/
Alternatively, you can use the compiler and write your own assembler that's compatible with our assembly code,
but allows you to extend some functionality by adding custom instructions, and so on.
Make sure you have Rust/Cargo installed, as well as the GCC compiler.
Downloading and compiling can be done in one simple command:
git clone https://github.com/an0nymoos3/nid-compiler.git && cd nid-compiler/ && cargo build --release
For future builds you simply run:
cargo build --release
The binaries can then be found under targer/release/, called nidc. Running nidc
will both compile to ASS and assemble the ASS to binary, outputting 2 files, one .ass and one .out.
./nidc my_file.nid
To view more options, simply run:
./nidc --help
If you don't have the same number of registers or memory addresses as the reference
CPU that this compiler was built for, you can specify it in a .toml file.
Below is an example of such a file.
custom_hardware.toml
mem_addresses = 512
registers = 16
extended_instructions = false
To use this file for compilation, you simple add the --hardware-conf flag.
./nidc my_file.nid --hardware-conf custom_hardware.toml
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Working compiler | 🟢 Working state, missing features |
| Working assembler | 🟢 Mostly done |
| Dynamic memory allocations | 🔴 Planned |
| Imports between files | 🔴 Planned |
| std library | 🔴 Planned |
Anyone with a lot of free time on their hands is free to contribute to this project. I would love to see NID-Lang supported on more platforms and projects.