ArkScript - Programming language

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ArkScript is an open source programming language created in 2019 by Alexandre Plateau and Pierre Pharel and Natendrtfm.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark

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ArkScript is a small, fast, functional and scripting language for C++ projects

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ArkScript is developed on GitHub and has 578 stars
Early development of ArkScript happened in Alexandre Plateau
ArkScript is written in C++, Markdown, YAML, JSON, CSV, CMake, Bash, Python, Bourne shell, SVG, XML, Dockerfile

Example from the web:

(import std.random)
(import std.Math)

(let number (mod (math:abs (random)) 10000))

(let game (fun () {
    (let impl (fun (tries) {
        (let guess (toNumber (input "Input a numeric value: ")))

        (if (< guess number)
            {
                (print "It's more than " guess)
                (impl (+ tries 1))}
            (if (= guess number)
                {
                    (print "You found it!")
                    tries }
                {
                    (print "It's less than " guess)
                    (impl (+ tries 1))}))}))

    (let tries (impl 0))
    (print "You won in " tries " tries.")}))

(game)

Example from hello-world:

(print "Hello World")

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Booleans	✓		true false
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		print
File Imports	✓	(import std.List) (import std.Math :max)
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X

HackerNews discussions of ArkScript

title	date	score	comments
Show HN: ArkScript, a small and fast language for scripting video games	03/26/2020	101	42
Show HN: An Online Playground for ArkScript	06/16/2024	1	1