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Janet is a functional and imperative programming language and bytecode interpreter. It is a
modern lisp, but lists are replaced
by other data structures with better utility and performance (arrays, tables, structs, tuples).
The language can also easily bridge to native code written in C, and supports abstract datatypes
for interfacing with C. Also support meta programming with macros, and bytecode assembly for the
janet abstract machine. The bytecode vm is a register based vm loosely inspired by the LuaJIT
bytecode format, but simpler and safer (bytecode can be verified by the assembler).
The language also bridging bridging to native code written in C, meta-programming with macros, and bytecode assembly.
There is a repl for trying out the language, as well as the ability
to run script files. This client program is separate from the core runtime, so
janet could be embedded into other programs.
janet could be embedded into other programs. Try janet in your browser at
[https://janet-lang.org](https://janet-lang.org).
Implemented in mostly standard C99, janet runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
The few features that are not standard C (dynamic library loading, compiler specific optimizations),
are fairly straight forward. Janet can be easily ported to new platforms.
There is not much in the way of documentation yet because it is still a "personal project" and
I don't want to freeze features prematurely. You can look in the examples directory, the test directory,
or the file `src/core/core.janet` to get a sense of what janet code looks like.
For syntax highlighting, there is some preliminary vim syntax highlighting in [janet.vim](https://github.com/bakpakin/janet.vim).
Generic lisp syntax highlighting should, however, provide good results.
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## Features
* Minimal setup - one binary and you are good to go!
* First class closures
* Garbage collection
* First class green threads (continuations)
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* Mutable and immutable strings (buffer/string)
* Lisp Macros
* Byte code interpreter with an assembly interface, as well as bytecode verification
* Proper tail calls.
* Tailcall Optimization
* Direct interop with C via abstract types and C functions
* Dynamically load C libraries
* Functional and imperative standard library
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## Documentation
API documentation and design documents can be found in the
[wiki](https://github.com/bakpakin/janet/wiki). Not at all complete.
[wiki](https://github.com/bakpakin/janet/wiki). There is an introduction
section in the wiki that contains a good overview of the language.
## Usage
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### Posix
On most platforms, use Make to build janet. To
On most platforms, use Make to build janet.
```sh
cd somewhere/my/projects/janet

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