vilan

The Vilan toolchain, installed by npm.

npm install -g @vilan-lang/vilan
vilan --version

That gives you two commands:

• vilan: the compiler and its dev loop (vilan run, vilan build, vilan test, vilan fmt, vilan watch, vilan upgrade).
• vilan-lsp: the language server, which the VS Code extension starts for you.

The book (start here): https://vilan-lang.org/docs/, with the guided tour, the language guide, the standard library reference and the specification.

What this package is

Vilan is a compiler written in Rust that emits JavaScript, so this package delivers a native binary, not a JS implementation. It carries no code of its own beyond two bin stubs; the binaries live in five per-platform packages (@vilan-lang/linux-x64, linux-arm64, darwin-x64, darwin-arm64, win32-x64), declared here as optional dependencies. npm reads their os and cpu fields and installs exactly the one your machine can run, with no download step at install time, so it works behind a proxy, on an offline mirror and under npm ci.

Running vilan runs that binary directly, with your arguments, your streams and its exit code; the stub adds nothing.

vilan upgrade knows it is installed by npm and will point you back at npm update -g @vilan-lang/vilan rather than overwriting files npm owns.

Other ways to install

The releases page carries checksummed archives for the same five targets, plus install scripts for shells and PowerShell. See the repository's README.

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0, at your option.