Overview

Senegal is a powerful, small-but-fast, concurrent, class-based, and dynamically-typed programming language with a modern syntax.

Sample Senegal Program

class Senegal {
var name;
Senegal(name) {
this.name = name;
}
function talk(msg) {
println(this.name + " says: " + msg);
}
}
var mel = Senegal("Mel");
mel.talk("Hello world!"); // Mel says: Hello World

Features

  • Fast single-pass compiler
  • Dynamically typed
  • Coroutines

Get Started

Have I piqued your interest? Great! Head over to our docs to get started.

Setup

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/SenegalLang/Senegal.git

Add the bin folder within senegal's root directory to your PATH.

Windows

  1. Press the Windows key, then search for and select "System (Control Panel)".
  2. Click "Advanced system settings".
  3. Click "Environment Variables".
  4. Under "System Variables", find the PATH variable, select it, and click "Edit".
  5. Add directory. For example, if the value was C:\Windows\System32, change it to path-to-senegal-bin;C:\Windows\System32.
  6. Click "OK".
  7. Restart your terminal.

Mac OS X

  1. Open the .bash_profile file in your home directory (for example, /Users/your-user-name/.bash_profile) in a text editor.
  2. Add export PATH="path-to-senegal-bin:$PATH" to the last line of the file.
  3. Save the .bash_profile file.
  4. Restart your terminal.

Linux

  1. Open the .bashrc file in your home directory (for example, /home/your-user-name/.bashrc) in a text editor.
  2. Add export PATH="path-to-senegal-bin:$PATH" to the last line of the file, where your-dir is the directory you want to add.
  3. Save the .bashrc file.
  4. Restart your terminal.

Contributing

Feel free to join in and help out with Senegal. You can start by

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