Lily is a programming language focused on expressiveness and type safety.

scoped enum Color { Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Magenta, Red, White, Yellow }
class Terminal(public var @foreground: Color, width_str: String)
{
    public var @width = width_str.parse_i().unwrap_or(80)
    public define set_fg(new_color: Color) {
        @foreground = new_color
    }
}
var terms = [Terminal(Color.White, "A"), Terminal(Color.Red, "40")]
terms.each(|e| e.width += 20 )
     |> print

By default, Lily runs in standalone mode where all content is code to execute. But Lily can also be run in template mode. In template mode, code is between <?lily ... ?> tags. When a file is imported, it's always loaded in standalone mode, so that it doesn't accidentally send headers. Files that are imported are also namespaced (no 'global namespace').

Lily may be a statically-typed language, but the reference implementation is an interpreter. The interpreter as well as its API have been carefully designed with sandboxing in mind. As a result, it's possible to have multiple interpreters exist alongside each other.

Another benefit from having the reference implementation as an interpreter is a shorter turn around time. The interpreter's parser is comparable in speed to that of languages using an interpreter as their reference.

You need a C compiler and CMake (3.0.0 +). There are no external dependencies.

To build Lily, execute the following in a terminal:

cmake .
make

Note: Windows users may need to add -G"Unix Makefiles" to the end of the cmake invocation.

The above will build the lily executable, as well as a liblily that you can use with your program. It also builds pre-commit-tests.

The centerpiece of Lily's testing is test_main.lily in the test directory. That file imports and invokes a large number of tests that cover a lot of Lily.

The make command also builds covlib and pre-commit-tests. No additional commands are necessary. covlib is a library that tests some parts of Lily that native code can't test. pre-commit-tests is a special runner that executes test_main.lily.

To run Lily's tests, execute pre-commit-tests from the directory it's in after building Lily.

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The lily-garden repository contains a package manager (Garden) that simplifies the install of Lily packages.

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