Shard documentation

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Summary

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• What is Shard?

• Features

• Installation

• Updating

• Learn Shard

• Contributing

What is Shard?

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Shard is a programming language that combines low-level control, suitable for operating systems, with the flexibility to develop high-level applications

Features

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• C-like syntax, but cleaner and modern

• Strong typing: supports built-in and user-defined types

• Pointers like in C

• Structures and arrays easy to declare, initialize and access

• Preprocessor with regex pattern-based macros

• Cross-platform backend: compiles to C code and supports freestanding, configurable target compiler

• Extensible compiler: adding backends is easy

• Namespaces organize your code into logical units

Installation

Step 1: clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/shardlanguage/shard

Step 2: make sure that you have Python3 installed on your system

python3 --version

Step 3: run the installation script as root

cd shard
chmod +x install.sh
su
./install.sh

Step 4: test the installation

shardc --version

Updating

To update Shard automatically, run update.sh:

cd shard
chmod +x update.sh
su
./update.sh

Learn Shard

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If you want to learn Shard, then you are in the right place! This documentation provides examples and explanations about every feature of the language.

• Variables

• Types

• Expressions

• Arrays

• Pointers and memory addresses

• Functions

• Comments

• Structures

• Conditions and loops

• Namespaces

• Preprocessor

• Inline C

• Compiler flags

Contributing

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The contributing guide can be found here.