Zephir - Programming language

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Zephir is an open source programming language created in 2013 by Andres Gutierrez.

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Zephir is a compiled high-level language aimed to ease the creation of C-extensions for PHP

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Zephir is developed on GitHub and has 3,281 stars
There are at least 91 Zephir repos on GitHub
Zephir is written in PHP, C, JSON, Bourne shell, YAML, Markdown, M4, XML, Dockerfile, JavaScript, Bash, CSS, Make, Lisp
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 127 users using Zephir in 140 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Zephir
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Zephir
zephir-lang.com was registered in 2013

Example from Linguist:

/**
 * CBLOCK tests
 * asfas
 */

%{
// top statement before namespace, add to after headers
#define MAX_FACTOR 40
}%

namespace Test;

%{
// top statement before class, add to after headers
// test include .h
#include "kernel/require.h"
}%

%{

// c implement fibonacci
static long fibonacci(long n) {
        if (n < 2) return n;
        else return fibonacci(n - 2) + fibonacci(n - 1);
}

}%

class Cblock
{
    public function testCblock1()
    {
        int a = 0;

        %{
            a = MAX_FACTOR;
        }%

        return a;
    }

    public function testCblock2()
    {
            long a = 0;

            %{
                a = fibonacci(MAX_FACTOR);
            }%

            return a;
    }

}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	// [0-9]+
Floats	✓	// [0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]+([eE][0-9]+)?[fd]?
Hexadecimals	✓	// 0x[0-9a-fA-F]+
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X