Chlore

This is Chlore - a stack-oriented programming language that's made with a focus on simplicity.

Philosophy behind the development of Chlore:

• If it takes 10 rereads to interpret it right, it should NOT make it into the language
• Do not add features just for the sake of it
• Do not specify unnecessary details in the name of "portability"
• Guarantees are fine, so long as an addition is not expected to summon elephants

A simple Hello World program written in a standard compliant implementation of Chlore¹:

import "stdlib.chloreh"
import "io.chloreh"
import "exit.chloreh"

:main
  pushp "Hello, World!\n"
  pushp putstr call
  pushp phclean call
  hlt

If you're curious about how the language looks like, you can check the grammar.txt file, which contains a summary of the syntax of Chlore.

A language specification is extremely important for the development of a language, and Chlore has a (WIP) standard too. A link to the standard will be put here soon.

Implementations of Chlore:

1. Toc

Cool stuff implemented in Chlore:

1. The YET text editor ²
2. Solutions to some Project Euler problems ²
3. POSIX shell utilities ²
4. The Carsee IRC client

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Do whatever you want with the files in ./examples/. chlore-logo.png and grammar.txt are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Copyright (c) 2023 Somdipto Chakraborty.

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Footnotes

1. Check out more examples in the examples directory. ↩

2. This might not work with the latest revision of the language ↩ ↩² ↩³