README.md

Dust

Dust is an open source programming language written in C# and .NET Core.

Introduction

Dust is a simple and easy-to-understand programming language inspired by many other programming languages such as C#, Go, Rust, Swift, Elixir, F#, Dart and so on.

If you want to take a more in-depth look into the development process, check out our Trello board.

Contributions are more than welcome even if you don't have any experience in programming language design, we're all here to learn. To learn more, see Contributing.

If you have any suggestions, questions regarding contributing, syntax or anything else, please ask away in our Gitter room.

Syntax

Planned syntax for a console hello world:

let fn main() {
  println("Hello World") // Print text and add a new line.
  println("from Dust!")
}

Properties (variables):

let immutable = 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 // Immutable property with initializer
let mut mutable = 3 + 2 + 1 + 0 // Mutable property with initializer

Functions:

let fn aFunction(mut mutableParam, immutableParam) { // A function with a mutable and immutable parameter. Returns their sum
  mutableParam = 12 // Mutate the mutable parameter
    
  let result = mutableParam + immutableParam // Add them and store the sum into 'result' property
    
  return result // Return the result (sum)
}

More examples will be added soon but for now you can take a look at this obsolete syntax mock just to get an overview of other planned features and concepts.

Contributing

As I said above contributions are more than welcome even if you don't have any experience in programming language design. If you're willing to contribute, take a look at these issues.

Copyright

This project is licensed under MIT license.