Emerge wants to be a programming language that gets out of your way, so you can freely experiment with your thoughts and challenges, until the solution emerges eventually.
// obligatory Hello World in emerge
package compilerdemo
import emerge.platform.StandardOut
mut fn main() {
StandardOut.put("Hello, World!\n")
}
Key features:
- mutability is a core part of the type system (like D)
- automatic memory management (reference counting, no GC)
- enables both functional and OOP style code; as well as combining the two
- actor-style concurrency
- statically typed, with lots of type-inference to keep your code clean and eloquent
- compiled ahead of time to native machine code using LLVM
This is a toy language with the main purpose of entertainment and education. Feedback, ideas, discussions, exchanges, ... is all very welcome 🙂
Download the latest .deb package from the releases page.
Install using
sudo apt install -f ~/Downloads/emerge-toolchain-{INSERT VERSION}.debInstall the dependencies manually:
llvm-18lld-18- a Java runtime >= 21
Download the latest .tar.gz package from the releases page. Then run after filling in:
VERSION="<INSERT VERSION, e.g. 1.4.2>"
sudo mkdir -p "/opt/emerge-toolchain/$VERSION"
sudo tar -xp --directory=/opt/emerge-toolchain/$VERSION -f "emerge-toolchain-$VERSION.tar.gz"
sudo /opt/emerge-toolchain/$VERSION/configure.shNothing to do 🎉; the build tool bazel will handle downloading and managing compiler installations for you.
Upgrading works the same way. Each compiler release gets its own package, so you can run multiple versions in parallel (reproducible builds ❤️).
The officially supported build tool for emerge is bazel. See docs/bazel.md for how to set up a bazel-build for emerge (it's really simple).