Ven bytecode compiler & virtual machine are being under active development on this branch. Ven of this branch is generally faster, has no stack limit etc., but has a lot less features.

Ven is a lightweight scripting language and (beware!) a hobby project.

Building Ven

On *nix:

1. Install Crystal, shards and libgmp.
2. Download this repository (via git clone or GitHub's Download ZIP).
3. Unzip if necessary. cd into the downloaded repository.
4. Run shards install to install the libraries Ven depends on.
5. Run shards build --release. You can optionally provide the --no-debug flag, which will omit all debug information and greatly decrease the executable's size.
6. The executable will be in bin/.

(NOTE): if there's a boot error, redo step 5 with the BOOT environment variable set to an absolute path to the std/ directory. E.g., in BASH, BOOT=/absolute/path/to/ven/std shards build --release.

On Windows:

:no_good: Try WSL.

Contributing

Thanks for your interest!

As I have stated, though, this is a hobby project. There are no guidelines, no roadmaps, and everything I add comes off my ever-recent ideas.

What I really want to say is this: it is very hard to contribute something new to a project whose goals and aims you don't even know.

Have a look at the code, though. You can search for spelling, grammar et al. mistakes. For inefficiencies. For eye-disintegration entities. For saboteurs.

If you want your changes in the project,

1. Fork;
2. Commit;
3. PR when ready & (maybe) have the approval.