This is the main repository of the stark programming language.

The repository is in early development stage, so the user experience for developing with Stark is manual and very limited (basic syntax highlighting in VS Code and compilation via build scripts)

The front-end compiler, runtime library in Stark and a simple IDE integration is available.

Note also that the compiler is a prototype and may have bugs.

You can find more details about this project in the following blog post series:

• The Odyssey of Stark and Melody
• Stark - Language And Frontend Compiler - Prototype 2019

• Open the solution src/stark-lang.sln with Visual Studio and build the solution with the Debug configuration.
• To compile the runtime library written in Stark you can go to the folder src/runtime/core and run the command line build.cmd (which is a simple wrapper around the starkc compiler)

You need to have Visual Studio Code installed.

• Open the folder src/editors/vscode/stark with Visual Studio Code
• Run the build task via the menu Terminal/Run Build Task... (or CTRL+SHIFT+B on Windows).
  • If the build is failing, it could be a misconfiguration of npm/tsc. Open a terminal from VSCode and run the command npm install -g typescript. Check that tsc --version is running fine (you should have a version above 3.x or more)
• Press F5 and it should open a new Visual Studio Code instance with the syntax highlighting for Stark and a pseudo integration with a compiler server (nothing is actually plugged there).
• With this new Visual Studio Code instance, open the folder src/runtime and you should be able to play with the syntax/language by changing the core library.

This software is released under the BSD-Clause 2 license.