The Rubbish Programming Language

Rubbish is a language that is optimized to be terrible at everything in general. Rubbish's planned features include:

• Actor model, lightweight processes based concurrency (Erlang-style) (currently no support for SMP)
• Immutable only values. This allows language implementation and GC to be easier. It also allows programming to be more difficult in most cases, which is a design goal(TM).
• Impure functional programming.
• A terrible standard library with no support for doing most common tasks.
• A database engine called Dump that you should definitely use for real work, if nothing else then just for the jokes.

How to build

Rubbish uses the CMake build system. To build you must have the following installed

• CMake 3.8 or so
• Haskell's Stack build tool (search for OS-specific instructions on how to install stack)
• A working C/C++ compiler toolchain (Visual Studio's C/C++ on Windows, GCC/G++ or clang on Linux)
• A C++ build system like make (for Linux) or Visual Studio etc. for Windows

To build using CMake

• cd {BUILD_DIRECTORY}
• cmake {SOURCE_DIRECTORY} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release (you can build in debug mode too (just ignore that last parameter) but then it won't put the executables in one place)
• Invoke your build tool. On linux it's usually just make, on Windows go to the build directory, open rubbish.sln in Visual Studio, and build the targets (on Windows you have to set Release mode inside Visual Studio to trigger the Release config)
• In Release config, the built executables (rubbish and rubbishc) are put in the build directory under a build_output folder

Compiling and running Rubbish programs

Rubbish programs have the extension .ish and the compiled files have the extension .ishc. Suppose you have a program.ish file. To compile and run, do

• rubbishc program.ish program.ishc
• rubbish program.ishc

It's like Java, rubbish is the interpreter and rubbishc is the compiler.