Dia: Brilliance of Diamond

Dia is a strong typed functional programming language, focused on simplicity and portability.

# The 'main' keyword is mandatory!
main =
  "Hello World!"
  .puts

The diac is a Dia programming language trans-compiler. It converts the Dia language source code into C++17 programming language code.

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
#include<vector>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  std::cout<<"Hello World!"<<std::endl;
}

Lemme brag about the dia!

The Dia programming language is...

• Easy -- As Simple as Lisp, Chain functions and Let it go!
• Solid -- Start error-proof programming with Dia!
• Strong -- Less code, Go Fast, Get advantages of functional programming!

The dia programming language compiler is...

• Fast -- Entire compiler is written in C, Output is in C++
• Compact -- Designed to be built in static binary

Use Dia programming language for...

• Code Golf
• Competitive Programming
• Embedded systems

Build

If you would like to use CMake

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

If you would like to use ninja with CMake

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G Ninja ..
ninja

If you prefer meson over CMake

meson setup builddir
cd builddir
ninja

Termux (Android)

The Dia compiler is also intended to work on Termux.

Run

pkg install git make bison flex clang

to install necessary packages. Then type make to build the Dia compiler.

QnA

Why did you started this (kind of) project?

Just for fun!

That is the biggest reason I started this project. But there are some minor reasons:

• I wanted to make an easy-to-use functional programming language. Not too complicated like Haskell, and not too minimized like Lisp.
• The project was started to make several useful functions, split for example, to be implemented in C++
  • I came up with initial idea while solving several competitive programming challenges
  • The lodash project in JavaScript inspired me. Lodash is a JS library provides some useful functions while programming in JavaScript.
• I wanted to make my programming language tool to be used inside embedded system.
  • I wanted to make useful tools while anayli
• I wanted to make a programming language, whatever in any form. That is of the same mind that a kid want to make his own toy of his own.
  • As mentioned, I wanted my languages to be used in code golfing, and embedded system.

Which programming language/concept influenced you the most?

• RxJS, the concept
• Ruby, the programming language design
• PyFunctional, the functions that are going to be included in the standard library (ongoing)