PonyLang 🦄✨

A magical programming language that brings friendship and joy to coding!

⭐ Features

• Simple and friendly syntax inspired by ponies
• Built-in string interpolation with sparkles ✨
• Fun keywords like FRIENDSHIP and MAGIC
• Full Unicode support including emojis 🌈
• Array operations with HERD type
• Built-in color support for terminal output

🚀 Installation

Via NPM (recommended)

Global installation: npm install -g ponylang

Verify installation: ponylang --version

From Source

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/bronymiau/ponylang.git cd ponylang

2. Install dependencies: npm install

3. Build and link locally: npm link

Requirements

• Node.js v12.0.0 or higher
• npm v6.0.0 or higher

🎮 Quick Start

1. Create a file hello.pony:

FRIENDSHIP "Hello, Pony World!"

MAGIC number = 42 FRIENDSHIP 🦄The magic number is {number}🦄

** Create an array (HERD) ** MAGIC scores = HERD[10, 20, 30] RAINBOW score IN scores { FRIENDSHIP 🦄Score: {score}🦄 }

2. Run it: ponylang hello.pony

📚 Language Basics

Keywords

• FRIENDSHIP - Print to console
• MAGIC - Variable declaration
• RAINBOW - Loop construct
• HERD - Array type
• HARMONY - Function declaration
• CASTLE - Object declaration
• PINKIE - Return statement

String Interpolation

Use 🦄 for string interpolation:

MAGIC name = "Rainbow Dash" FRIENDSHIP 🦄Hello, {name}!🦄

Functions

HARMONY addNumbers(a, b) { PINKIE a PLUS_PLUS b }

Objects

CASTLE pony { name: "Twilight Sparkle", power: 100 }

🛠️ Development

Running Tests

npm test

Starting REPL

npm run repl

📖 Documentation

For detailed documentation, visit our Wiki

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guide

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

🌟 Examples

Check out the examples/ directory for more sample code:

• Basic syntax: examples/basic.pony
• Functions: examples/functions.pony
• Arrays: examples/arrays.pony
• Advanced game: examples/advanced/game.pony

🐛 Bug Reports

Found a bug? Please open an issue on our GitHub Issues page.

✨ Credits

Created with love by bronymiau and the PonyLang community.