Ace Programming Language

Ace is a statically typed, memory safe, multi paradigm programming language with consistent syntax.

Installation

• Tested setup: macOS Apple Silicon with Homebrew and LLVM 16
• The bundled dev, behavior, and smoke presets currently assume Homebrew is installed under /opt/homebrew
• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/samochreno/ace
cd ace

• Install dependencies with Homebrew

brew install cmake ninja llvm@16 termcolor nlohmann-json

• Configure and build

cmake --preset dev
./scripts/ace-build build

Usage

• See example

./build/ace -oexample/build example/package.json

Tests

• Runs the full behavioral suite:

ctest --preset behavior

• Runs only the original end-to-end smoke check: builds ace, compiles the bundled example, runs ./example/build/example, and verifies the output is 0

ctest --preset smoke

• To focus on one area:

cd build
ctest --output-on-failure -L scope
ctest --output-on-failure -L traits
ctest --output-on-failure -L operators

License

• The project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.