Heraclitus is an open source compiler frontend written in rust. It's going to be used as a basis for programming languages such as Amber and Flame.

With heraclitus you can create your language by skipping the cumbersome lexing step and using convenience parsing methods that can get you started on your language much quicker.

The main construct that you need is the Compiler. The compiler will tokenize your code and assemble it in a way that you can use to create AST by implementing predefined trait that helps you parse your code.

It's pretty simple. In order to get started you need 3 steps:

1. Create lexing rules
2. Create your ast nodes and let them implement trait provided by this package
3. Create compiler and tie all the components together

Voilá! 🎉

Now you got yourself a ready to analyze / interpret / validate / compile AST.

Ready to get started?

use heraclitus::prelude::*;
Compiler::new("HerbScript", rules);

It is recommended to use included prelude to import just the things we will actually need.

The Compiler requires lexer rules in order to exist.

let cc = Compiler::new("HerbScript", rules);
let tokens = cc.tokenize()?;

• Logger::text now doesn't end with a new line

• Added Logger::line method that adds a new line in the end (works just like old Logger::text)

• PositionInfo::from_between_tokens shows the range even if the end token is None

• Bugfixes for calculating start index in tokens

• Tokens now contain information about their index of the first character in the source code
• Added PositionInfo::from_between_tokens method to select a region between two tokens in messages

• Fixes escapes that were handled improperly

• Remove debug information

• Heraclitus no longer panics when error happens out of bounds of file

• Escaping escape key now treats it as a character

• Escaping regions is now properly handled

• Major fix that caused the lexer to lead to an undefined behavior with defining a region that has a beginning rule longer than one character.

• Compiler now does not rely strongly on provided source code. It can now open files from path if provided. This can improve drastically performance of the compiler when working with imports.

• Show elapsed time in parser debug mode

• Offset now supports negative values

• Token now derives Default trait

• Message now does not consumes itself when it's being displayed
• Removed warn* and info* macros as we don't see any reason to use them at this point

• Added error_at, warn_at, info_at macros

• Breaking change: All new Failing API
• Syntax Result now returns Failing enum
• Errors are now encouraged to be propagated back to the root of the AST.
• Added context macro to support better developer experience

• Tracebacks

• Terminal colors (support for non-truecolor consoles)
• Logger now prints errors to STDERR

• Multiline regions wouldn't parse

• Added support for UTF symbols

• Critical bug with non-tokenizable regions being tokenized

• Changed Logger API that improves adding code snippets
• Logger::new_err is now called Logger::new_err_at_position
• Logger::new_warn is now called Logger::new_warn_at_position
• Logger::new_info is now called Logger::new_info_at_position

• Bad token highlighting in Logger when showing a code snippet

• Major bug with a tokenised interpolation being parsed in a wrong way.
• Intensively used code is now inlined at compile time

• ErrorDetails::from_token_option(...) can now be used to create errors at location of given token

• Added compounds
• Logger can now display messages not related to code
• New method for retrieving current token
• New debug functionality

• Changed string reference of all function parameters to impl AsRef<str>