Verse
1.0.0
Verse is an interpreter for the Verse programming language. In the future, the goal is to evolve this project into an all-in-one bundle made of an interpreter, a compiler, and a debugger. Verse is designed to be compiled directly to machine code, and offers all the features a low level language would, while still being able to be interpreted like languages like Python or Ruby (enhancing portability, and reducing wasted time by removing the need to perform a full compilation of your code-base just to run unit-tests).
In order to install verse, you have to build it from source. By default, the build process tries to use clang++, but you can change that
to make it use g++ instead if you so desire. Either way c++20 or higher is required.
$$ git clone https://www.github.com/fDero/Verse$$ cd Verse$$ make build
To make your first hello-world program in verse, all it takes is to create a file with the .verse extension (in this case, it will be called hello.verse)
containing the following code:
func main(){println("Hello world!");
}Once you have the file set up, to run it just use the verse -r hello.verse command in console.
$$ verse -r hello.verse$$ Hello world!
Verse is a strictly typed language, it has a C-style type system with Int, Float, Bool, Char, String as primitive types.
func main(){var x : Int = 6;var y : Float = 9.4;var f : Bool = false;var c : Char = 'z';var s : String = "hello world";
}Verse supports recursion just like any other language, and a good way to show it is with the classic fibonacci example, consider the following code:
func fibo(n : Int){if (n < 2) {return 1;
}else {return fibo(n-1) + fibo(n-2);
}
}func main(){println(fibo(6));
}assuming the file is called fibo.verse, then it can be executed just like we did earlier with the hello-world example, using the verse -r command.
$$ verse -r fibo.verse$$ 21
