The Mars Programming Language

Warning

Mars and its toolchain are work-in-progress and not ready for production use.

Mars is a strongly-typed procedural language, built for ergonomic data-oriented design.

This repository is also home to various other compiler projects:

Iron

Iron is a lightweight but powerful code optimization and generation library, built on a custom SSA-CFG. Iron provides a direct IR to binary pipeline, with a high-level integrated assembler and linker.

Iron is the backend library that powers all the language frontends in this repository.

Coyote

Coyote is an implementation of the Jackal language by hyenasky. Coyote focuses on useful diagnostics, lower memory usage, faster compile times, and high quality code generation compared to the original XR/SDK implementation.

Coyote introduces various features to Jackal for ergonomics (pointers to scalar stack variables, implicit IN, ALIGNOF and ALIGNOFVALUE, etc.) and optimization (NOALIAS qualifier, etc.).

Building

Linux and WSL

You will need Make, a C compiler with support for C23 (with some GNU extensions), and a linker (gcc is the default for both of these).

To build from scratch:

make clean mars    # for Mars
make clean coyote  # for Coyote
make clean libiron # for Iron as a library

To build incrementally, after the initial clean build:

make mars          # for Mars
make coyote        # for Coyote
make libiron       # for Iron as a library

Windows Native

Work in progress! Feel free to bother me about this. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out, it's just not a priority for me right now.