Garter

is an in-development programming language heavily influenced by DarkBasic, x86 Assembly, JavaScript, Python, and C and built from the ground-up on its own tooling and compiler toolchain.

What's Included

Out of the box, Garter provides a compiler toolchain (compiler) (assembler) (interpreter), and a lightweight standard library comparable to glibc. Eventually Garter will also include additional libraries, a language server, and a package manager. Documentation will also be available over at Modula.dev

Installation

Garter will be available as standalone binaries for 64-bit Windows, Linux, and MacOS. For major versions, I plan to also make binaries for FreeBSD and ravynOS.

To build Garter from source, you'll need gasm, and if you're building gasm from source, you'll also need gyb. From there, building Garter look something like:

gyb -v && gasm -v
> gyb 0.0.0
> gasm 0.0.0
gasm garter.gasm garter
> "garter" assembled as Linux ELF in 33kiB
./garter -v
> garter 0.0.0

Implementation

Garter is being written entirely in gasm(Garter Assembly) by the combination of hand-written code and using C helper functions. Once garter.gasm is written, it will be compiled to executable binaries for 64-bit Windows, Linux, and MacOS, as well a bytecode file that can be run in gyb.

Resources

• Garter Website
• YouTube Devlog

Licensing

This project will be adopting a hybrid licensing model. The main project will ship with a Contributor License Agreement and the AGPLv3.2. All of the language's documentation will be under the Unlicense. Additional materials and extensions will be available under a proprietary End-User License Agreement which stipulates that modifications to the language implementation must be made publicly available under the CLA and AGPL licenses. Usage of Garter's name and branding are permitted as long as they do not imply an endorsement by Modula or its contributors.

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