Brightscript - Programming language

Brightscript is a programming language created in 2010.

#1092on PLDB

14Years Old

832Repos

Tags: programming language
There are at least 832 Brightscript repos on GitHub
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 86 users using Brightscript in 98 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Brightscript
Read more about Brightscript on the web: 1.
1 PLDB concepts link to Brightscript: cloc

Example from Linguist:

' *********************************************************
' **  Simple Grid Screen Demonstration App
' **  Jun 2010
' **  Copyright (c) 2010 Roku Inc. All Rights Reserved.
' *********************************************************

'************************************************************
'** Application startup
'************************************************************
Sub Main()

    'initialize theme attributes like titles, logos and overhang color
    initTheme()
  
    gridstyle = "Flat-Movie"

    'set to go, time to get started
    while gridstyle <> ""
        print "starting grid style= ";gridstyle
        screen=preShowGridScreen(gridstyle)
        gridstyle = showGridScreen(screen, gridstyle)
    end while

End Sub


'*************************************************************
'** Set the configurable theme attributes for the application
'**
'** Configure the custom overhang and Logo attributes
'** These attributes affect the branding of the application
'** and are artwork, colors and offsets specific to the app
'*************************************************************

Sub initTheme()
    app = CreateObject("roAppManager")
    app.SetTheme(CreateDefaultTheme())
End Sub

'******************************************************
'** @return The default application theme.
'** Screens can make slight adjustments to the default
'** theme by getting it from here and then overriding
'** individual theme attributes.
'******************************************************
Function CreateDefaultTheme() as Object
    theme = CreateObject("roAssociativeArray")

    theme.ThemeType = "generic-dark"

    ' All these are greyscales
    theme.GridScreenBackgroundColor = "#363636"
    theme.GridScreenMessageColor    = "#808080"
    theme.GridScreenRetrievingColor = "#CCCCCC"
    theme.GridScreenListNameColor   = "#FFFFFF"

    ' Color values work here
    theme.GridScreenDescriptionTitleColor    = "#001090"
    theme.GridScreenDescriptionDateColor     = "

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	' A comment
Line Comments	✓	' A comment	'
Semantic Indentation	X