sateko is a toy brainfuck compiler.
NOTE: this requires LLVM 12 installed on your machine.
Install with:
$ cargo install sateko
sateko compiles a bf script (e.g. hello.bf) into LLVM IR. The typical process of building an executable depends on your development environment. Building a typical bf program might look something like this:
$ sateko hello.bf
$ llc out.ll
$ gcc out.s
$ ./a.out
Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language that models a Turing machine. While the language itself is very simple, being productive with it is often less so.
Conceptually, the runtime environment (in this case sateko) provides a tape consisting of byte-sized cells and a set of operations which manipulate that tape.
- '[' Start a loop
- ']' End a loop
- '>' Increase the tape position
- '<' Decrease the tape position
- '+' Increase the value at the tape position
- '-' Decrease the value at the tape position
- ',' Read a byte from standard in and store value on tape at current position
- '.' Write value at current tape position to standard output.
Each time a loop starts, the interpreter will check the value on tape at the current position. If that value is 0, the loop will terminate, otherwise, all operations contained between [ and ] will be executed.
This is a toy project. I wanted to play with Rust and do a bit of parsing. The brainfuck language is extremely simple to parse, and the number of concerns in the execution envronment is very small.
And, there's a lot of room for experimentation.
Some ideas:
- replace tokenizing and parsing with a parser-combinator
- write a proper parser that will handle more than single character commands
- JIT brainfuck
- REPL
- compile to assembly or bytecode // DONE
- optimization pass
- build all the way to executable
- language extension:
- add "functions"
- multi-file programs
sateko uses the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE file.