WIP

This is a new functional language with the first-class array support and planned object-oriented features. ficus compiler generates a portable C/C++ code out of .fx files.

The code is distributed under Apache 2 license, see the LICENSE

The compiler has been written in OCaml and needs ocaml (including ocamlyacc and ocamllex utilities), ocamlbuild and make utility to build it. Tested with OCaml 4.07-4.10. (In the near future it's planned to rewrite the compiler entirely in ficus)

cd <ficus_root>/src
make
./ficus -run -O3 ../examples/fst.fx # can also try other scripts in <ficus_root>/examples

run ficus --help to get more complete up-to-date information about command line parameters

here is brief summary:

ficus [-c|-app|-run|...] [-O0|-O1|-O3] [-I<extra_module_path>] <scriptname.fx> [-- <script arg1> <script arg2> ...]

• -app (the flag is set by default) generate C code for the specified script as well as for the imported modules (one .c file per one .fx file), then run the compiler for each of the generated .c files and then link the produced object files into the finaal app. Use FICUS_CFLAGS and FICUS_LINK_LIBRARIES environment variables to pass extra options to C compiler, e.g. -ffast-math -mavx2 -lmimalloc etc. The compiled app, as well as the intermediate .c and .o files, is stored in __build__/<scriptname>/<scriptname>. Override the output name with -o option.
• -run builds the app (see flags -app) and then runs it.

(see #4 for the decryption and the status)

The compiler was inspired by min-caml (http://esumii.github.io/min-caml/index-e.html) by Eijiro Sumii et al.