Eiger Programming Language

Eiger (name from Mt. Eiger, Switzerland) is a simple interpreted dynamic-typed programming language.

Website | Documentation

Current Features

• Variables
• Control Flow
• Loops
• Functions
• Object Oriented Programming (WIP)

Installation

There are no stable releases of the language yet, but you can still build from the source

Building and Running

If using Visual Studio

• Clone this repository
• Open the solution file using Visual Studio
• Build and run
• To run unit tests, use the Test Explorer

Using the .NET CLI

• Clone this repository
• Run dotnet run in /eiger
• To run unit tests, run dotnet test in /eiger.Tests

Simple Example

class Person {
  let name
  let surname

  func new(name, surname) {
  	this.name = name
  	this.surname = surname
  }

  func Introduction() {
  	emitln("I am " + this.name + " " + surname + "!")
  }

  func Greet(other) {
  	emitln(name + " greeted " + other.name + "!")
  }
}

let px = Person("Name1", "Surname1")
let py = Person("Name2", "Surname2")

px.Introduction()
py.Introduction()

px.Greet(py)

This is a very simple example showing Eiger's OOP capabilities