https://github.com/nitlang/nit

Nit language
https://github.com/nitlang/nit

compiler language nit

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Nit language

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nitlang/nit
• Owner: nitlang
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2009-10-06T15:03:00.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-22T17:07:56.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-16T22:26:27.486Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: compiler, language, nit
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://nitlanguage.org
• Size: 118 MB
• Stars: 234
• Watchers: 21
• Forks: 64
• Open Issues: 169
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: Changelog
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
Nit is an expressive language with a script-like syntax, a friendly type-system and aims at elegance, simplicity and intuitiveness.

Nit has a simple straightforward style and can usually be picked up quickly, particularly by anyone who has programmed before.

While object-oriented, it allows procedural styles.

The Nit Compiler (nitc) produces efficient machine language binaries.

Some Nit features:

 * Pure Object-Oriented.

 * Multiple Inheritance.

 * Realist typing policy.

 * Light and clear syntax.

Requirements:

 * gcc		http://gcc.gnu.org/ (or a compatible C compiler)

 * pkg-config	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/

 * ccache	http://ccache.samba.org/	to improve recompilation

 * libgc-dev	http://hboehm.info/gc/

 * libunwind	http://nongnu.org/libunwind

Those are available in most Linux distributions

    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential ccache libgc-dev libunwind-dev pkg-config

and on OS X using brew

    $ brew install ccache bdw-gc libunwind-headers pkgconfig

or with MacPorts

    $ sudo port install ccache boehmgc libunwind-headers pkgconfig

Important files and directories:

 * benchmarks/	Script to bench the compilers

 * bin/		The Nit tools

 * c_src/	C code of nitc (needed to bootstrap)

 * clib/	C code needed by nitc to compile programs

 * contrib/	Various Nit programs (may or may not be useful)

 * doc/		Documentation

 * examples/	Program examples written in Nit

 * lib/		Nit standard library

 * LICENCE	License of the software

 * Makefile	Bootstrap the Nit tools

 * misc/	Some additional files for common text editors and tools

 * NOTICE.md	List of the authors

 * README	This file

 * share/	Common resources used by tools

 * src/		The Nit tool sources (written in Nit)

 * tests/	Non-regression test-suite

How to start:

    $ make

    $ bin/nitc examples/hello_world.nit

    $ ./hello_world

You can source `misc/nit_env.sh` to setup your environment like PATH, MANPATH and bash completion.

To have your environment automatically configured at login, just source it with `install` as argument.

    $ . misc/nit_env.sh install

More tools:

Additional tools can also be compiled but require more dependencies.

 * graphviz	http://www.graphviz.org/	to enable graphs with the nitdoc tool

 * libcurl      https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/   for the nit package manager nitpm

 * libevent	https://libevent.org/           for the nit documentation server nitweb

 * libmongoc    http://mongoc.org/              also for nitweb

    $ sudo apt-get install graphviz libcurl4-openssl-dev libevent-dev libmongoc-dev

    $ make more

Contributing:

To contribute to Nit, please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).

The best way to ask the team for advice, submit bugs or request features, is through the use of Github issues, using the appropriate tag (`forum`, `feature-request`, `bug`).

Information, contacts and help:

* Website 

* Issues 

* Chatroom