使用 Homebrew 安装 prog8

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• prog8c

项目历史

Prog8 began as a Python compiler and was rewritten in Kotlin in early 2022. Upstream credits the rewrite with improving performance, type safety, IDE support, and maintainability.

Subsequent development expanded the language and its target model while retaining the project's low-level 6502 focus. The documentation records milestones including Commander X16 support, new control structures and data types, and customizable machine targets.

采用历史

Prog8 remains a specialist cross-development language centered on retrocomputing. Upstream documents package-manager installation, emulator-assisted development, and a community concentrated particularly around the Commander X16 while continuing to support Commodore targets.

使用方式

Developers compile .p8 modules with prog8c, select a target, and receive an assembled runnable program for real hardware or an emulator.

The compiler supports built-in targets and user-supplied target properties files. Because those files are explicitly selected project inputs rather than a fixed application configuration location, no standard config path is documented.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Prog8 packages a modern high-level language experience for resource-constrained 6502 systems while retaining direct access to memory, ROM routines, and inline assembly. Its toolchain connects a JVM-hosted compiler, the separately packaged 64tass assembler, and classic-machine emulators.

时间线

• Pre-2022: The original Prog8 compiler was implemented in Python.
• 2022: The compiler was rewritten in Kotlin beginning with the 1.0 beta line.
• 2023: Upstream's release history describes a period of language maturation.
• 2024 onward: Development added more advanced language and target-system capabilities.

Related projects

• Prog8 automatically feeds generated assembly to 64tass. Its emulator-launching workflow uses VICE for Commodore targets and documents other emulators for additional target machines.

来源

• https://prog8.readthedocs.io/_/downloads/en/latest/pdf/
• https://prog8.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
• https://prog8.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• https://prog8.readthedocs.io/en/stable/compiling.html