👨‍🚀 buzz

A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language written in Zig

Homepage — Discord

Features

• Small in size and complexity (just a bit more than Lua though)
• Statically typed
• Unambiguous
• No nonsense coercion
• Fibers
• JIT compilation with MIR
• Tooling
  • VS Code extension
  • Helix support thanks to tree-sitter grammar
  • LSP
  • Formatter

How to build and install

Latest zig version supported: 0.15.0-dev.263+d8153fa74

Requirements

• Since this is built with Zig, you should be able to build buzz on a wide variety of architectures even though this has only been tested on x86/M1.
• Linux or macOS (Windows support is coming)
• libc
• zig master

Build

1. Clone the project: git clone https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz <buzz_dir>
2. Checkout submodules: git submodule update --init
3. Have fun: zig build run -- <myscript.buzz> to run a script or zig build run to start the REPL

Install

# install locally at ~/.local
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe install -p ~/.local

# install globally at /usr/local
sudo zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe install -p /usr/local

If you’re usage if performance critical (game dev for example), you can build using -Doptimize=ReleaseFast.

Remember to modify PATH to include the bin directory where it is installed. For example, export PATH=PATH:/home/xxx/.local/bin. You can then run buzz with buzz <myscript.buzz>. Or you can simply run buzz to start the REPL.