Capybara is a dynamically typed, semi-whitespace sensitive programming language, taking the best parts from Lua, Rust, and Python to create a readable, comprehensive and simple programming language.
Capybara's main focus is to provide a compromise between high level and low level programming languages: while high level languages like Python have wonderful readability and power, they lack critical components that low level programmers love using, such as:
- Memory management / Pointers
- Portability
- Speed
At the same time, low level languages don't provide the myriad of comforts that high level languages like Python provide, such as:
- Readable syntax
- Dynamic typing
- Flexibility
Capybara is meant to provide the best of both worlds, allowing both high level and low level programmers to transfer seamlessly between the two. To accomplish this, Capybara provides:
- Readability
- Power and Speed
- Dynamic typing
- Portability
- Memory Management (Don't worry, its not required)
- Compatibility with new technology
- and a lot more!
Here's an example of some code in Capybara:
add(int x1, ptr int x2): # all function arguments must be statically typed
x2++ # capybara allows for pointer arithmetic
return x1 + *x2 # pointers are still dereferenced like normal
end
main():
local x1 = 3 # variables can be inferred
ptr x2 = 5 # unlike other languages, you declare a pointer with the 'ptr' keyword
add(x1, x2)
endCurrently, Capybara can't be built using cmake. Cloning this repository is a viable way to experiment with the early version of Capybara.
Capybara operates via a console. To make a capybara file, write a piece of capybara-syntax-compliant code with the file extension ".cb". Then, in the capybara console, type "compile (your_file_name)" without the .cb file extension and capybara will automatically find the file and compile it. Then, to run the file, type "run". The run command runs the previously compiled file.