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# Ginger
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A programming language utilizing a graph datastructure for syntax. Currently in
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super-early-alpha-don't-actually-use-this-for-anything development.
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## Development
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Current efforts on ginger are focused on a golang-based virtual machine, which
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will then be used to bootstrap the language. go >=1.18 is required for this vm.
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If you are on a linux-amd64 machine with nix installed, you can run:
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```
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nix-shell -A shell
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```
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from the repo root and you will be dropped into a shell with all dependencies
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(including the correct go version) in your PATH, ready to use. This could
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probably be expanded to other OSs/architectures easily, if you care to do so
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please check out the `default.nix` file and submit a PR!
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## Demo
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An example program which computes the Nth fibonacci number can be found at
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`examples/fib.gg`. You can try it out by doing:
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```
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go run ./cmd/eval/main.go "$(cat examples/fib.gg)" 5
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```
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Where you can replace `5` with any number. The vm has only been given enough
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capability to run this program as a demo, and is extremely poorly optimized (as
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will be evident if you input any large number). Further work is obviously TODO.
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