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Hawk programming language

Hawk

Hawk is a languaged designed to function very similar to C++, but borrowing elements from Haskell's type system and clean syntax style. Hawk is intended to strike a balance between clarity and control. Check out the prototype code for examples of how a Hawk program should look. Currently the compiler needs to be built, which you can find in hawkc. As time goes on, this will eventually contain the base toolchain for development with Hawk

Building

Requires Flex, Bison, Boost, LLVM, and GTest. To build hawk, run the following command in the root directory.

mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..

Symbol Cheatsheet

Hawk syntax mostly avoids the use of reserved keywords. Instead, hawk makes use of operator symbols to declare variables, functions, and data types.

Module System

Symbol	Meaning
::	Module
->	Import module
=>	Import module as Qualified

Expression System

Symbol	Meaning
$	Declare Variable
#	Declare Value
=	Assignment
:=	Define function
^	Return

Type System

Symbol	Meaning
:-	Record Datatype (Object) or Algebraic Datatype (enum)
:~	Typeclass
:+	Implementation
<:	Subtype of
!	Immutable
*	Pointer
&	Reference

Toolchain

Compiler: hkc

• Helpful compiler errors, that follow a standard for an ide to manage.

Debugger: hdb

Project Manager: nest

Project Package: egg

Documentation Generator: owl

Linter: eagle

Standard Libary: Core

Main repository: flock.io

X-Plat GUI library: peacock

IDE: Sky