Noble: No Bad Language Esoterics

Manifest

Noble is to get rid of esoterics in scripting languages and allow its users to integrate scripting to big-scale projects with a C++ based interpreter, standard library, and easily extendable base functions. Originally, it was created for the Gmeng Game Engine and kept as an internal tool (PLIB file reading). Now, it's being rewritten as a more extensive scripting language, not limited to Gmeng.

Note

To learn more about Gmeng and it's documentation visit [gmeng.org].

Examples

While Noble can not currently execute scripts, we still have examples that the standard which defines Noble allows us to provide here.

example.nb / Writing "Hello, World!" to the console

#import io;

// both 'fn' and 'function' keywords are accepted
fn main() {
    io::print("Hello, World!\n");
};

the 'io' header is the standard library's input/output controller, and print() writes text to the first available interface

Outputs:

$ noble example.nb
Hello, World!

example-internals.nb / Internal Functions

/// The standard of the Noble language
#import standard;
#import io;

fn main() {
    string info = standard::internals::get_execution_instance(main);
    /// internal info about the caller and definition of a function
    io::print("main() called from " << info.caller.name << " (from " << info.caller.file << ":" << info.caller.line << ")\n" <<
    "main() defined in: " << info.file << ":" << info.line << "\n");
};

the 'standard' library provides internal functions and variables on the language.

Outputs:

$ noble example-internals.nb
main() called from noble.runner (from noble.internal:0)
main() defined in: example-internals.nb:5

(caller shows from noble.internal since it's the main() function)

Contributing

Noble currently stands as a publically-accessable repository, but it does not accept commits to its main branch at this time. You are free to fork this repository to make changes as you wish.