Kal
A general purpose programming language!
Features
- Lightweight: Fast with extremely low memory usage. Kal takes care of garbage collection.
- Dynamic: No boundaries on types. Reassign a variable to a value of a completely different type.
- Procedural: Abstract your code into reusable functions and split them across files.
- Batteries Included: There is no separate standard library. All features are interpreter intrinsic.
- Package Management: Manage third party / reusable packages centrally and share them across projects.
- Embeddable: Embed Kal into existing C++, Python and JavaScript applications seamlessly via official bindings.
- Independent: Kal is written completely from ground up without utilizing any third party library.
fn sort -> data { var i = 0.
loop i < $(len data) { var j = i.
loop j < $(len data) { if data[i] > data[j] { var [data[i], data[j]] = [data[j], data[i]]. } j = j + 1. }
i = i + 1. }
<- data. }
:sort [3, 1, 5, 4, 2] -> sorted. stdout "Sorted: " sorted "\n".
Embeddable
- Kal is not just an interpreter. It is possible to embed Kal into other languages. With seamless integration, Kal can enhance the host language.
- Embeddable Kal allows passing values bi-directionally, to and from the host language.
- During installation, Kal compiles into static and dynamic object files that link with the host program.
- Kal can be embedded in C++, Python and JavaScript programs.
#include <kal> int main(int argc, const char** argv) { Kal kal = Kal(); kal.exec(R"(stdout "Hello World\n".)"); return 0; }
from pykal import Kal kal = Kal() kal.exec('stdout "Hello PyKal\n".')
import Kal from 'jskal'; const kal = new Kal(); kal.exec('stdout "Hello JSKal\n".'); kal.close();