Welcome to MindStone Programming Language

MindStone is a beginner programming language, designed to have the logical simplicity of languages like Python but the complexity in types and sintax from strongly-typed languages.

Getting Started

To start coding in MindStone, just use the Start --> command followed by curly braces:

start --> {

}

This will be your "main" function, inside those curly braces you can write all the code you need, note that all sentences should end with ! as EOL.

Variable declarations:

You can declare any variables you need on your program, the sintax is DATA_TYPE VARIABLE_NAME ( = VALUE)?!, note that the starting value of the variable is optional, if the starting value its not provided the variable will be assigned null by default.

The variables names on mindstone can use letters and numbers, but the starting character of the name should be a letter.

Currently MindStone has 3 data types:

• ent: Used for Integer values, such as 3, 7.0, 27.
• pdec: Used for Floating point values, such as 1.2, 4.5, 32.8.
• ctr: Used for Character values, such as 'a', 'q', 'z'.

So, for example, to make a program that just generates one variable with a specific value you could use the following code:

start --> {
  ent var1 = 1!
}

You can also use the result of a operation (+, -, *, /) as the value of a variable:

start --> {
  ent var1 = 1!
  ent var2 = var1 + 3!
}

Variable assignations:

To change the value of a variable after declaration use the following sintax: VARIABLENAME = NEW_VALUE!

Using the example seen before, we can re-assing the variable var1 to another value:

start --> {
  ent var1 = 1!
  ent var2 = var1 + 3!
  var1 = 2!
}

Console prints

MindStone has a command to log any value you want on the native console of the editor, this value could be a variable, a operations result or a hard-typed value as 1 or 'a', the syntax for this is ptr( VALUE ).

The following code will display 3, 30 and 1 on the console respectively.

start --> {
  ent var1 = 3!
  ptr(var1)!
  ptr(var1 * 10)!
  ptr(1)!
}

Conditions

Currently, MindStone has the following condition operators available:

• '>'
• '<'
• '>='
• '<='
• '||'
• '&&'
• '=='
• '!='
• 'true'
• 'false'

Conditional sentences

Conditionals are the pillar of responsive programing, in MindStone, you can change the flow of your code based on a condition using the conditional sentences.

If Statement

This is the most basic conditional, if the boolean value of the condition space is true,the code inside the brackets is executed

start --> {
  if (5 > 3) {
    ptr("Hello World!")!
  }!

Else If Statement

You can chain multiple condition evaluations using else if, so if the first condition its not a truthy value you can still evaluate other conditions before taking and ultimate decision.

start --> {
  if (3 > 5) { // False
    ptr("Hello World!")!
  } else if( 5 < 3 ) { // true
    ptr("Hello else if")!
  }!

Else Statement

If theres no truthy condition on the conditional chain, the code flow will end on the else code block.

start --> {
  if (3 > 5) { // False
    ptr("Hello World!")!
  } else if( false ) { // false
    ptr("Hello else if")!
  } else {
    ptr("Hello else!")!
  }!

Loop structures

Using loops, we can resolve problems that require iterative logic:

While loop

The while loop keeps executing his code block as long as his asociated condition evaluates as True. The sintax for the while loop is the following:

// This example will print the numbers from 0 to 10
start --> {
  ent i = 0!
  while( i <= 10){
    ptr(i)!
    i++!
  }

INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT ONLY

ANTL4 Setup

Run antlr -Dlanguage=JavaScript -o ./src/ -visitor -no-listener ./grammar/Language.g4 every time the grammar is changed on the project

NEXT.js Project setup

This is a Next.js project bootstrapped with create-next-app.

Getting Started

First, run the development server:

npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
# or
pnpm dev
# or
bun dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

You can start editing the page by modifying app/page.js. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.

This project uses next/font to automatically optimize and load Inter, a custom Google Font.

Learn More

To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

• Next.js Documentation - learn about Next.js features and API.
• Learn Next.js - an interactive Next.js tutorial.

You can check out the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!

Deploy on Vercel

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Check out our Next.js deployment documentation for more details.