Lily - Programming language

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Lily is an open source programming language created in 2011.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily

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An interpreted language with a focus on expressiveness and type safety

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Lily is developed on GitHub and has 1,082 stars
Lily on GitLab
Early development of Lily happened in https://gitlab.com/FascinatedBox/lily/-/issues
Lily is written in C, Lua, Ruby, Python, CMake, Markdown, YAML
Explore Lily snippets on Rosetta Code
lily-lang.org was registered in 2016

Example from the web:

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

Language features

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