Yadriggy C

An embedded DSL similar to the C language.

Overview

This DSL is used to offload computation from the Ruby VM. The code for the offloaded computation is written in this DSL but embedded in Ruby code. At runtime, the DSL processor locates the DSl code in the Ruby source code. It is parsed, translated into C code, compiled into binary on the fly by an external C compiler, and run through ruby-ffi.

Since the DSL is not Ruby, only the syntax is shared among this DSL and Ruby. In the DSL, only limited kinds of language constructs are available and the DSL code is statically typed. Neither classes or hash maps are available. The code has to be written with C-like language constructs such as functions and arrays but pointers are not supported.