Update copyright/license notices & README with build instructions. Made peon buildable via nimble build

README.md

@@ -5,14 +5,15 @@ Work in progress for Peon 0.2.x
 
 ## What changed
 
-- Peon will no longer use a runtime GC. Instead, the memory model will use lifetimes with regions. Ownership/uniqueness (a la Rust),
-  might be added in the future, too
+- Peon will no longer use a runtime GC. Instead, the memory model will use ~~lifetimes with regions~~-- actually, peon will use
+  [generational references](https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references) instead (they're way cooler IMHO)
 - The compiler has been completely overhauled and no longer handles any code generation (in fact, currently there is no code generation
   at all, just a parser and a type checker). This is to allow for true multi-backend support as well as to improve separation of concerns
+  because all the code generation stuff intertwined with the typechecking was driving me insane (please do send help)
 
 ## Build
 
-Just run `nimble install`
+Just run `nimble build`. It should grab all the dependencies for you and produce a `peon` binary in your current working directory
 
 
 ## Tests

src/backend/bytecode/tooling/debugger.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/backend/bytecode/tooling/multibyte.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/backend/bytecode/tooling/serializer.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/backend/bytecode/vm.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/config.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/errors.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/frontend/parsing/ast.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/frontend/parsing/lexer.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/frontend/parsing/parser.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/frontend/parsing/token.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/peon.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/util/fmterr.nim

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

src/util/symbols.nim

@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 import frontend/parsing/lexer
 
 

src/util/testing.nim

@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright 2024 Mattia Giambirtone & All Contributors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+## Peon's own custom test suite. Because it's much better to spend a month rolling your
+## own solution rather than spending 2 hours learning testament. Yeah, I suffer from NIH
+## syndrome, so?
+
 import std/strformat
 import std/strutils
 
@@ -5,8 +23,6 @@ import frontend/parsing/lexer
 import util/symbols
 
 
-
-
 type 
     TestStatus* = enum
         Init, Running, Success,