baranium

baranium is an open-source programming language originally designed for use with a personal game engine project, however later repurposed and redesigned for use as an actual programming language.
It's design allows easy expansion of the available functions in the runtime and easy embedding into other C(++) projects for various purposes.

Discord

To see more indepth stuff and ask questions, join the baranium discord server.

Language specifications

baranium was originally designed to be used with a game engine and therefore it has features that other languages may not have such as fields. Fields are and behave just like variables the only difference being that fields can be changed by the user using the runtime. However the current runtime executable may not support this at the moment because of this feature being oriented towards integration of the language in other projects. More information can be found in the syntax section of the wiki.

Examples

You can find example scripts under examples in the root of this repository. Some of them may compile, some of them may not.

Building

1. Open a command line at the root of the reporitory, create a build directory and change into that directory using

mkdir build
cd build

2. Run cmake and point towards the root of the repository containing the CMakeLists.txt file, optionally add -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<Release/Debug> at the end to specify whether to build a debug or release build

cmake ..

3. If on windows skip to 5, if linux or mac goto 4

4. Run make and enjoy!

5. Open the generated visual studio solution and build the entire solution

Note

The generated binaries are under the subfolders Compiler, Runtime and RuntimeExecutable and if using Windows under a folder with the same name as the build configuration

Using the compiler

Compiler flags/options:

Flag	Description
-o path	Specify output file
-h	Show the help message
-I file	Specify file containing all custom user include directories
-d	Print debug messages (only useful for debugging the compiler itself!)
-e	Export output as a library file
-l name	Link against a library named name (filename has to exactly match the library name, no extensions!)

As for specifying source files, just list the paths to the files like every other compiler on this planet.

Using the provided runtime executable

The provided runtime executable doesn't put a focus on advanced functionality and library flexibility that you would see in languages like Python or Java. Instead it has just a few standard libraries and console output functions. This can and will probably change with either future updates or if enough people want a feature to be added.
To use the provided runtime, just provide a compiled script to the runtime executable and it should run.

Embedding the runtime

For further information please consider reading the wiki.