• The Sex language
• Compilation and usage
  • Install Chicken Eggs
  • Compilation
  • Usage
• Features
  • Full C interoperability
  • Use an established environment for development
  • COMING SOON: Polymorhpism

The Sex language

Sex is a S-expressions language, which transpiles to C.

Compilation and usage

Sex is written in Chicken Scheme, so first you'll need to get yourself a Chicken.

It also has a couple of Chicken deps.

Install Chicken Eggs

By the way, there's a way to make Chicken install eggs non-globally. Refer to the documentation for more info: https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Extension%20tools#changing-the-repository-location

chicken-install fmt tree brev-separate

Compilation

make

Usage

You'll also need a C compiler, so pick any.

cat hello-world.sex | sexc > hello_world.c
cc hello_world.c -o hello_world

Features

Full C interoperability

Just (include "Your/Favourite/Library.h") and use it as you would have is C.

For hardcore fans of traditional Lisp naming convention, Sex offers automatic unkebabification of all symbols, i.e. no more ugly GL_ARRAY_BUFFER~s in your code, they may be writted in their proper form: ~GL-ARRAY-BUFFER.

Use an established environment for development

As Sex is S-expressions, you always have Emacs with paredit as your best option.

COMING SOON: Polymorhpism