Samarium is a dynamic interpreted language transpiled to Python. Samarium, in its most basic form, doesn't use any digits or letters.
Here's a Hello, World!
program written in Samarium:
"Hello, World!"!;
Documentation on how to program in Samarium can be found here.
pip install samarium
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/samarium.git && cd samarium && makepkg -sirc
or use your favorite AUR helper.
You can run Samarium programs with samarium program.sm
.
samarium-debug
may be used instead, which will first print out the intermediary Python code that the Samarium program is transpiled into, before executing it.
Short | Long | Description |
---|---|---|
-c <cmd> |
--command <cmd> |
Can be used to execute Samarium code from the string cmd ,directly in the terminal. cmd can be one or more statementsseparated by semicolons as usual. Note that the last statement of cmd will be printed if it does not end in a semicolon. |
-h |
--help |
Shows the help message |
-v |
--version |
Prints Samarium version |
There is also a VSCode syntax highlighting extension for Samarium, which can be found here. The source code can be found here.
Samarium was inspired by several languages, including brainfuck, Rust, and Python.
Special thanks to:
- tetraxile for helping with design choices and writing the docs
- MithicSpirit for making an AUR package for Samarium
- DarviL82 for fixing some issues
- Endercheif for making the documentation look fancy, helping with design choices, and adding partial Python Interoperability
If you have any questions, or would like to get in touch, join my Discord server!