Status

Corfli 0.1.1 is the first working version. It handles small programs well; a lot is still to come.

Works now

• Whole numbers of every size, bool, char and strings
• Variables, constants, replacing with :=, .address and .destroy()
• if, while, for and switch
• Functions with default values, named values and mut parameters
• Several files with include, glob and priv
• print, input, input.secret and exit
• Programs for Linux, and Windows programs built on Linux

Every change is tested against a set of programs on Linux. Windows support is new and still being tested.

Speed

The code generator is simple for now: every value goes through memory. Compared with C built by gcc -O2:

Closing that gap is phase 3.

Next

1. Phase 2: double and float, structs, enums, lists and maps, values that may be missing (?T) or fail (!T), string methods, program arguments, corfli test, and corfli lsp for errors and types in the editor.
2. Phase 3: an optimizer and register allocation, aiming for the speed of C.
3. Phase 4: SIMD types, unsafe blocks and inline assembly.
4. Phase 5: a formatter, debug info, calling C libraries and threads.