🚀Getting Started

Learn how to get Zaidlang up and running on your local machine.

What is Zaidlang?

Zaidlang is a small, class-based scripting language.

Installing Zaidlang

Direct Download

You may download the compiled binaries for your platform from our GitHub releases page.

Windows

Archives	Size
zaidlang_1.0.0_windows_386.zip	2.1 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_windows_amd64.zip (Recomended for Intel Chip PCs)	2.16 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_windows_arm64.zip	1.98 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_windows_armv6.zip	2.05 MB

Linux

Archives	Size
zaidlang_1.0.0_linux_386.tar.gz	2.04 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz	2.14 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz	1.96 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_linux_armv6.tar.gz	2.01 MB

Mac

Archives	Size
zaidlang_1.0.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz	2.2 MB
zaidlang_1.0.0_darwin_arm64.tar.gz	2.11 MB

For Windows

1. Once extracted put the folder to "C:\Program Files"

2. After the copy the folders path and setup the environment variable using this blog.

Brew🍺(Let us kow if it works)

If you're on Mac, you may use homebrew:

$ brew tap zaid-language/zaid-lang
$ brew install zaid-language/zaid-lang/zaid-lang

Go Install (Not working currently)

If you have Go installed, you may use go install:

$ go install github.com/zaid-language/zaid-lang

Building Zaidlang

If you're on a Unix or Mac machine, you can easily download the source code and build directly:

git clone https://github.com/zaid-language/zaid-lang
cd zaid-lang
make

This downloads and builds the latest version of Zaidlang found on GitHub. You will be put inside a fresh instance of zaid if everything was successful.

Interactive Mode

If you just run zaid without any arguments, it starts the interpreter in interactive mode (aka, REPL mode, read-eval-print loop). You can type in a line of code, and immediately execute it. While in this mode, your state is saved until you exit the program. Meaning if you define a variable, you may reference the variable later on.

Ready to give Zaidlang a spin?

printftw("Hello, world!")

Once you have Zaidlang setup and installed, you're ready to jump into learning the language.