Warning: Yolk is currently in development. Things may change at any time!
What is Yolk?
Yolk is a domain-specific language that transpiles to Yolol.
Yolk specializes in working with numbers and arrays.
Why should I use Yolk?
Convenience
Yolol doesn't support arrays, so each element must be a separate variable.
// Yolol
a_0=1 a_1=2 a_2=4 a_3=8
Yolk handles array expansion so that you don't have to.
// Yolk
let a = [1, 2, 4, 8]
In Yolol, applying element-wise operations to an array is repetitive and error-prone.
// Yolol
a_0=1 a_1=2 a_2=4 a_3=8
b_0=a_0^2 b_1=a_1^2 b_2=a_2^2 b_3=a_3^2
// Result: b_0 == 1, b_1 == 4, b_2 == 16, b_3 == 64
In Yolk, element-wise operations are powerful and concise.
// Yolk
let a = [1, 2, 4, 8]
let b = a ^ 2
// Result: b == [1, 4, 16, 64]
Simplicity
Yolk's syntax is simple and beginner-friendly.
// This is a comment!
import a
define b(c, d) = c + d
let e = 0
export f
Yolk provides the same operators and precedence as Yolol.
let number = 1 + 2 * 3
// Result: number == 7
Efficiency
Yolol chips are slow and have a limited amount of space.
Yolk uses SSA form to aggressively optimizes your code, making it faster and smaller.
How do I get started?
Learn the Yolk syntax by checking out some examples or by reading the language specification.
Try Yolk online with Yolk Web.
Development
Requires Git and Rust nightly.
# Set nightly as default
# Clone the repository
&&
# Build and run tests
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
Credits
Logo derived from: Egg by David from the Noun Project