xPython

xPython provides a python-like syntax and converters to any language.

Idea is to define a syntax with static typing, but with late type binding. Syntax that very similar to Python, but at the same time allows to avoid some problems of the language (like accessing private and protected properties of the class, check data types of variables, define static variables). At the end - we can convert the program to any other language (Swift, Go, Python, JavaScript and Java), that allows to write the same codebase and use different backends to run the resulting code.

Project building blocks

Compiler - program that transforms our source code to a code on another programming language. See wikipedia

Parser - parses our source code to a special structure, that later used by Code Generator.

Code Generator - extension that allows to convert program to a selected programming language. Each code generator rely on it's own syntax and implementation, but uses the same parsed code.

Documentation

Read full documentation about the xPython in the docs/ folder.

Syntax

It's very basic description of the xPython syntax. You can find it very similar to Python language.

from math import operation as do_operation

class X:
  Int x
  Str s = "Initial value"

  def init(x):
    this.x = x

  def add(Int y) -> Int:
    return do_operation('+', this.x, y)

  def doit(Int y, Char op) - > Int:
    return do_operation(op, this.x, y)

Installation

# Install it.
pip install xpython
# Compile file.
xpython compile --language=python script.xpy
# Or compile all files in folder.
xpython compile --language=js project/