Programming Language

Nocter

A self-contained systems language built around simplicity, encapsulation, and foolproof design.

Documentation GitHub

use std/io

func main(): i32! {
    io.print("Hello from Nocter\n")?
    return 0
}

func main(): i32 {
    let value = load_value() catch failure { fallback_for(failure.message()) }
    if value == 42 {
        return 0
    }
    return 1
}

func load_value(): i32! {
    return error.new("example.unavailable", "the primary value is unavailable")
}

func fallback_for(message: &str): i32 {
    return 42
}

use std/fmt.Format

use std/io

struct Point {
    x: i32
    y: i32
}

instance Point {
    impl Format
    method &self.format_into(output: &+String): void {
        output.push_str("(")
        self.x.format_into(output)
        output.push_str(", ")
        self.y.format_into(output)
        output.push_str(")")
        return
    }
}

func main(): i32! {
    let point = Point { x: 3, y: 4 }
    let message = "point = ${point}\n"
    io.print(&message)?
    return 0
}

use std/io

use std/vec.Vec

struct Point {
    x: i32
    y: i32
}

instance Point {
    operator (&self == other: &Self): bool {
        return self.x == other.x && self.y == other.y
    }
}

func main(): i32! {
    let first = Point { x: 3, y: 4 }
    let same = Point { x: 3, y: 4 }
    let other = Point { x: 5, y: 6 }
    if first != same || first == other {
        return 1
    }
    let points = Vec [move first, move other]
    if points[0] != same {
        return 1
    }
    var values = Vec [1, 2, 3]
    values[1] = 4
    if values[0] + values[1] + values[2] != 8 {
        return 1
    }
    io.print("equality found the point\n")?
    return 0
}

struct Buffer {
    values: [i32; 3]
}

instance Buffer {
    operator (&self[index: usize]): &i32 {
        return &self.values[index]
    }

    operator (&+self[index: usize]): &+i32 {
        return &+self.values[index]
    }
}

func at<C>(container: &C, index: usize): i32 where (&C[usize]): &i32 {
    return container[index]
}

func main(): i32 {
    var buffer = Buffer { values: [3, 4, 5] }
    buffer[1] = 9
    if at(&buffer, 1) != 9 {
        return 1
    }
    return 0
}

/development/compiler/crates/nocter-content-integrity/README.md

nocter-content-integrity

Responsibility

Project physical files and regular directory trees into deterministic SHA-256 content identities.

Contract

Consumers select an exact physical root and an explicit root-entry policy. The crate rejects symlinks, special entries, non-Unicode relative paths, and files that change length while being read. It publishes a typed digest; it does not assign package, installation, or release meaning.

The companion binary exposes the same library operations to release packaging. It contains no second hashing implementation.

Invariants

A regular file digest is SHA-256 over its exact bytes.
A tree digest includes normalized relative paths, entry kinds, file lengths, and file bytes in deterministic order.
Excluded entries are explicit root entries; descendants and pattern-based exclusions do not exist.
Package cache, installation validation, and packaging consume this one physical-content model.