DinoSource

DinoSource - is a full-fledged, open-source, interpreted programming language developed for the Godot Engine.

This language is useful for supporting modding in games, implementation in gameplay where programming is required, the syntax is easily modified, which allows you to easily create your own language syntax, or copy other popular languages, program tools where the programming language is used as a design tool.

📋 Table of contents

• ✨ Features
• 🚀 Quick start
• 📚 Code examples
• 🔌 Integration with Godot
• 🤝 Participation in development
• 💖 Support the project

✅ Features

• Basic Types and Operators
• Functions and Scope
• Classes with Constructors/Destructors
• Arrays and Index Access

🔤 Language

🔧 Integration

• ✅ GDScript → DinoSource: Registering native functions and variables to call GDScript inside DinoSource
• ✅ DinoSource → GDScript: Calling functions and accessing DinoSource data within GDScript
• ✅ Cross-platform: Works everywhere Godot Engine works (Windows, Linux, macOS, Web, Mobile)

🚀 Quick start

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/JekSun97/DinoSource.git
cd DinoSource

2. Open in Godot

• Launch Godot 4.x
• Open the IDE.tscn scene

3. Write your first script

// 🦖 Hello DinoSource!
print("Hello World!");

int x = 10;
float y = 3.14;
string msg = "DinoSource is working!";

print(msg + " x=" + str(x) + ", y=" + str(y));

4. Launch! 🎮

• Click Run in the interface
• See the console output

📚 Code examples

🔁 Cycles and conditions

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    if (i % 2 == 0) {
        print("Even: " + str(i));
    } else {
        print("Odd: " + str(i));
    }
}

🏗️ Classes with a constructor and destructor

class Player {
    string name;
    int health = 100;
    
    // Constructor
    void Player(string n) {
        this.name = n;
        print("Player " + this.name + " created!");
    }
    
    // Destructor
    void ~Player() {
        print("Player " + this.name + " deleted");
    }
    
    void takeDamage(int dmg) {
        this.health = this.health - dmg;
        if (this.health <= 0) {
            print(this.name + " died!");
        }
    }
}

// Usage
Player hero = new Player("Artyom");
hero.takeDamage(30);
delete hero;  // The destructor will be called!

📦 Arrays and functions

var array = [10, 20, "Hi!", false];

string check(var _arr) {
    string _text = "\n";
    for (int i = 0; i < _arr.size(); i++) {
        _text = _text + "arr[" + str(i) + "] = " + str(_arr[i]) + "\n";
    }
    return _text;
}

print("arr: " + check(array));

📃 Here you can find a large snippet of DinoSource code for study - Test Сode.

🔌 Integration with Godot

Registering a native function (GDScript → DinoSource)

func _ready():
    var interpreter = DSInterpreter.new()
    
    # Register the "godot_log" function to be called from DinoSource
    interpreter.registerNativeFunc("godot_log", _godot_log)

func _godot_log(args: Array):
    if args.size() > 0:
        print("[DinoSource] " + str(args[0]))
    return null

// In the DinoSource code:
godot_log("Greetings from DinoSource!");  // Calls a GDScript function

Calling the DinoSource script from GDScript

# Running the code
var ast = parser.parse(lexer.LexerRun("int nmb = 16; print('Hello'); int DinoFunc(int a, int b) {return a+b;}"))
interpreter.run(ast)

# Getting a variable
var nmb = interpreter.getGlobalVar("nmb")

# Function call
interpreter.callFunc("DinoFunc", [4, 1])

🤝 Participation in development

Any contributions are welcome! 🙌

🐛 Found a bug?

1. Check it out Issues
2. If not, create a new one with:
   • 📋 Steps to reproduce
   • 💻 Godot version
   • 🧪 Minimal code example

💬 Have an idea? Open Issue or Discussion!

💖 Support the project

Developing DinoSource is a hobby project, and your support is greatly appreciated! 🙏

⚠️ Use at your own risk, the language may have hidden problems that I may not have yet discovered, you can create a topic in the problems section, or contribute a fix. Here you can see a list of upcoming improvements and their priority.

The language was originally developed for a gaming project where most of the gameplay - is programming 💻.