Aardvark - Programming language

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Aardvark is an open source programming language created in 2020 by Hg0428 and JustCoding123 and CompilingCoder and TheBoys619 and PlasDev and ZDev1.

#1260on PLDB

4Years Old

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/Aardvark-team/Aardvark-py

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Aardvark was originally designed in Python as an interpretter. This encompassed all releases up to 1.0. Then, in 2021 and 2022, other implementations started emerging, written in language such as Go and C++. In 2022, however, Aardvark underwent the 1.0 redesign. The language was redesigned from the ground up and re-implemented with a new, but temporary Python interpretter. Now, in 2023, the team is building the final compiler. This compiler is written in Aardvark itself and compiles to LLVM. It has the goal of being faster than C while easier than Python. It was designed for beginners and pros alike. The documentation is avaialiable here: https://aardvark-docs.programit.repl.co. It includes many tutorials and articles.

Tags: programming language
Aardvark is developed on GitHub and has 8 stars
Early development of Aardvark happened in discord
Aardvark is written in Python, Markdown, Bourne shell, TOML, PowerShell, JSON

Example from the web:

stdout.write("Hello World!\n")

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example
hasSelfOrThisWord	✓	You can name it whatever you like.
hasReservedWords	✓
Sets	✓
Print() Debugging	✓
Prefix Notation	✓
Postfix Notation	✓
Pointers	✓
Pattern Matching	✓	This functionality is included in switch statements.
Operators	✓
Octals	✓
Null	✓	`null`
Multiple Inheritance	✓
Multiline Strings	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓
Module Pattern	✓
Manual Memory Management	✓
Lists	✓
Line Comments	✓
Infix Notation	✓
Increment and decrement operators	✓	++ and --
Implicit Arguments	✓
Integers	✓
Inheritance	✓
File Imports	✓
hasIfs	✓
hasIfElses	✓
Here Document	✓
Hexadecimals	✓	`16_fa7` would evaluate as a hexadecimal number
hasGlobalScope	✓
hasForLoops	✓
hasFnArguments	✓
Floats	✓
First-Class Functions	✓
Exceptions	✓	Has throw, try, and catch
Dynamic Properties	✓
Constants	✓	`static` keyword
Constructors	✓
Conditionals	✓
hasContinue	✓
Comments	✓
Classes	✓
hasBreak	✓
Booleans	✓
Binary Literals	✓	`2_101` would evaluate as a binary number.
Assignment	✓
Anonymous Functions	✓
Labels	X