Biscuit Language

The Biscuit Language (BL) is simple imperative programming language using LLVM backend implemented in C. Language syntax and all it’s features are still in development and not ready for “real” use yet. Biscuit is designed to be simple, fast and explicit.

Features

Simple small language.
Manual memory management.
ABI compatibility with C libraries.
Opensource
Game development oriented.
Compilation to native binary.
Integrated interpreter.
Offer testing tools out of the box.
Rich type info in runtime.
Debuggable in gdb, lldb and Visual Studio.

Current master

The latest unstable version of the compiler.

Current release - 0.9.0 - BETA (Apr 11, 2021)

Documentation

File	Platform	Kind
blc-0.9.0-win64.zip	Windows	Binary
blc-0.9.0-macos.zip	macOS	Binary
blc-0.9.0-linux.zip	Linux	Binary
blc-0.9.0-source.zip		Source

Change log


Use LLD as default linker on Windows and Linux (experimental on macOS).
Update command line arguments to match unix common naming standarts.
Improve build system api and remove some obsolete functions.
Change build pipeline to call compile/compile_all explicitly.
Fix switch related parser bugs.
Fix unit mixing when using multithreaded build pipeline.
Add support of shared library output.
Add cmake build target Utils.
Add hash into CodeLocation.
Add namespace support.
Add unnamed symbols. (underscore used as name is not inserted into scope)
Add support of inline function group members.
Use faster custom system library and SDK lookup on Windows.
Compiler now reports unused private or local symbols.
Cleanup modules.

Installation

Please see: installation documentation.

Older releases

List of all releases.