click

Language frontend for C-like languages, with heavy focus on correctness and simplicity

Goals:

• easy to modify
• easy to extend to other languages
• easy to use for writing tooling
• "correct"
• fast enough for most use cases

Building

meson setup build/ --prefix /usr
#                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#              only required when you want to install too
#
# you can also add --buildtype release  OR  --buildtype debugoptimized

meson compile -C build/

# installs /usr/include/click/*, /usr/lib/libclick.a, and /usr/bin/click
meson install -C build

Development

• Use clang-format (>= 21!!)
• If the result of the auto-formatter looks bad, don't disable formatting, but instead refactor your code.
• Commit messages abide by the Conventional Commits style for the most part; however, we add extra types on top:
  • docs, style: documentation and formatting changes, respectively
  • perf: performance improvements
  • test: add or improve tests
  • refactor: rename, move, or deprecate stuff
  • chore: remove long deprecated functions, change build system, and related
  • misc: anything else