Knight Programming Language

Knight is a general purpose statically typed + JIT Compiled programming language built on top of Python and LLVM.

General functionality includes:

1. Mutable and constant variables
2. Arithmetic Operators
3. If Else statements
4. While/For loops
5. Built in functions and User Defined Functions

Setup

1. Download this repo
2. Preferably add a new Anaconda or Miniconda environment in the repository location
   • conda create --name knight_env python=3.12
3. Activate the environment
   • conda activate knight_env
4. Install the following packages
   • conda install llvmlite
   • pip install pyinstaller
5. Build the executable file
   • pyinstaller --onefile --name knight --icon=assets/knight_icon.ico main.py
6. Add the dist folder to your system PATH environment variables
   • ..\..\knight\dist
7. Open a brand new terminal, and you should now be able to use the knight command (similar to trying python in terminal)
8. To test self written code, create a new file with code, named {NAME_OF_FILE}.knight
9. IMPT -> Add the main function to your {NAME_OF_FILE}.knight file. This is required.
10. To test prewritten test cases
    • knight tests/forloop.knight --debug

Contact Noel Pereira ([email protected]) to know more!