Comet

Comet is a fast, compiled programming built on top of C and LLVM. It has an enormous feature list, including:

• Classes (called structs)
• Templates
• Runtime exceptions
• Inline functions
• A system for casting values from one type to another
• An attribute system for templates
• Inheritance
• Imports and a package system (no more C-style header files!)
• An extensive standard library that handles memory management for you

Completed Features

• Variables
• Loops
  • While loops
  • For loops
• Standard library
  • IO - Input/Output
    • Printing
    • File IO
  • Collections - data structures
    • List
    • Hashmap
  • Memory - manual memory management
  • Ansi - ANSI colour codes
  • String - string handling and management
• Imports
  • Package system
  • Package manager
• Functions
  • Returning
  • Inline functions
• Structs
  • Struct definition
    • Fields
      • Private/protected/readonly
      • Default values
      • Accessing / setting fields
    • Methods
    • Constructor
    • Destructor
  • "new" keyword
  • Calling methods
  • Inheritance
  • Templates
    • Template attributes
• Command line args
• Exceptions
  • Throw exceptions
  • Catch exceptions

Compiling

Just run make in the root of the repo. This will create the cometc executable. If you want a debug build, run make debug. Debug builds include the address sanitizer for tracking down segfaults.