Also pushed an update to box3d-minc with some performance tweaks. box3d-minc is now faster on some benchmarks than MSVC on x64, arm64 and wasm are at around x1.2 compared to clang/emcc. wasm live demo: spacesofplay.github.io/box3d-minc/ box3d-minc: github.com/SpacesOfPlay...

Minor correctness release of minc compiler (0.9.10) Fixed a codegen issue, added optimizations, compiler size reduced, and syntax highlightning tweaks. install from minc.dev (or run minc_update)

I'm bad at blog posts, but the project started from zero. There was an initial prototype that was just "how small can you make a self-compiling language?". There's a bootstrap compiler in C that compiles the actual .mc compiler source. The compiler then self-compiles over 3 steps + 1 control step:

raylib-minc example code, the basic shapes example:

Finally got around to setting up the raylib-minc wasm example page: spacesofplay.github.io/raylib-minc/

You can live-edit a smaller box3d demo here, if you want to play around with the source code without downloads: minc.dev/playground/g...

Released minc compiler 0.9.9 - this is a major correctness and optimization update. The motivation for this work was to run the transpiled Box3D library at equal performance levels as msvc/clang. Installer scripts and links to repos at minc.dev

screenshot in minc, in C you need to write "return lo + (int32_t)(rng_next() % ((uint64_t)hi - (uint64_t)lo));" to avoid UB.

Ported an old project to minc compiler, original C++ project is ~200k lines of code and compiles in 21s (without cmake generation, which would add another 35s). The minc project is 160k lines and compiles in ~1s. Left terminal apple clang c++, right terminal minc compiler:

Working on a JIT/hot-reload module for minc compiler. This is a godot app written in minc, with a static "engine" part that loads the minc compiler as a .dll module (libminc.dll), then watches file dir with OS events, recompiles directly to executable memory and remaps. Cross platform win/mac/linux.

Added minesweeper example based on thirteen.mc header to the minc compiler wasm playground: minc.dev/playground/g... The thirteen header is a tiny library that opens a window and hands back an RGBA pixel buffer.

Added a imgui_demo example to the gfx playground. minc.dev/playground/g...

the godot bindings repo comes with a polished next gen game as well, or... maybe not. (it's interactive and shows some more binding flow.)

mc cube in godot, scripted from minc code.

updated the minc gfx playground with webgpu compute shader example: minc.dev/playground/g...

user code looks like this:

dear imgui transpiled to minc as one header - 149,708 lines.

the minc compiler is 1.5MB. it requires ~512Mb to self-compile inside the minc micro kernel.

sokol wasm/webgpu support in minc compiler, available in next release.

things might have escalated

Did you know that any language can be bound to control the Godot game engine? Here's a quick test setup with minc running the game loop, drawing a mc test cube. All scripted in minc, no godot editor used. Running on macOS.

minc uefi kernel booting, reclaiming boot memory, setting up interrupts, a physical allocator and dropping to user mode/ring 3 with (a very basic) preemptive scheduler.

Installing and running the examples:

The thirteen-minc single header transpile/port for minc is now available at github.com/SpacesOfPlay... The original is "a header-only C++ library that initializes a window and gives you a pointer to RGBA uint8 pixels to write to." Targets win, linux, macos, wasm.

who needs operating systems anyways...

more scope creep is happening...

VS Code wasm shader live editing setup:

Released minc compiler v0.9.7. This release had a bit of feature creep. Added shader live editing, supported with cli "minc run --shader-live app.mc" syntax, and in vs code including wasm targets. Preview directly in the live wasm playground at minc.dev/playground/g...

spent way too long debugging why this didn't trigger a size change in the live reloading...