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In contrast with C++ or Rust Argentum pointers always point to class instance or interface instance. They cannot point to local variables or object fields. This is much like references in Java In contrast with Java and other GC-based languages…
Argentum has very few primitive types: Argentum allows to work with 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit types in a raw data structures with the help of sys_Blob class. This is mostly useful for interop with C or other languages. When declaring…
Tl;DR Added two pointers “*Class”, “&*Class”, one operator “*expression”, one type of constant “*methods”. What’s added: How to use Sometimes it is good to have immutable data objects. This is how it’s done in Java: This is how it’s implemented…
The sources of argentum programming language are organized in modules.Modules are text files with extension ag residing in the same directory. They are always in UTF-8 encoding. On compiler invocation one of modules is passed to it as a starting…
Starting today Argentum got new rules for modules and name visibility. TL;DR Previously: Now: Examples All examples can be found in windows-demo #1 Basics #2 Friend of my friend… The SDL-FFI module contains the low-level function declarations implemented in C:…
Tutorial updated to v.0.0.2 Let’s solve the following coding interview problem: You are given a directed graph in the form of a text string: “a>b b>c c>d e>f b>e e>a c>c” Graph nodes are marked with letters a-z. The graph…
1. Download and Install Download and extract argentum-demo.7z archive from Assets at it with your preferred anti-malware. Install and launch VSCode Launch VSCode and install extension CodeLLDB 2. Open project Open the folder with the extracted demo: Since…
Code updated to v0.0.2: added module imports. Preparations Setup VSCode environment as shown here: how-to-play-with-argentum-in-vscode. Right-click on src folder and select new file: Type fizz_buzz.ag Question Fizz-buzz is a famous coding interview question. Usually it sounds as follows: Write to…
What is Composition Composition is a relation between objects when object A explicitly and exclusively owns the object B. Or in other words “The object B has only one owner – the object A”. Compositions is a bread and butter…
It’s just released: a demo that lets everyone to try the Argentum programming language on Windows. Download link: argentum-demo.7z It contains: Short instruction: For the SDL graphical demo application do these three commands: Play with `*.ag` files in `src` directory to see…